THE IRONY IS STUNNING AND INFURIATING. This is not what a co-op does. No company that calls itself a “co-operative” absolutely, categorically, adamantly, perversely refuses to co-operate. But the Federated Co-operatives Limited in Regina did, and does.

WORKING WHEN YOU’RE SICK IS NOTHING NEW. Eighty-nine percent of us do it all the time. Mostly because we have no real choice—not even in a pandemic.

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THE CANADIAN FREELANCE UNION IS A ‘STAR TREK’ UNION. It aims to bravely go where no union has gone before—without actually being a union.

THE MECHANICAL TURK WAS ONE GREAT HOAX. Just like a lot of our modern-day robots.

THE OLD MAN WAS HURTING, HUNGRY AND MAROONED IN THE ER. No one wanted it that way. But that’s how it often is at the Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville, NS. That’s why three ER doctors at the hospital are set to walk away.

THEY’RE WORK INCLUDES GETTING YELLED AT, SPIT ON, PUNCHED.

WORK IS A NOW A COMBAT ZONE FOR TOO MANY IN MANITOBA. Liquor store thefts have made workers in the stores the latest casualties in the war on illegal drug use in Manitoba.

WE KNOW THEY ARE NOT HEROES. Not the kind we give medals to, anyway.

MATTHEW LINNITT HAD TO RUN FOR HIS LIFE AND LIE ABOUT IT. It was the only way he could save himself and his job.