IT BLOWS THE STEREOTYPES ALL TO BITS. The 34 First Nations in Manitoba took up for themselves, went searching for help and found it in Cuba. So much for the stereotype of Indigenous people unwilling or unable to help themselves. So much for the stereotype of evil socialists.

SEIZE THE TIME! Now is the time for us all to take our own advice and act.

LESLIE TILLEY DIDN’T ASK “WHAT’S THE POINT.” Neither did any of the six friends who travelled with her. The point was they couldn’t just sit at home and pretend there was no healthcare crisis in Nova Scotia. So they drove the 130 km up to Halifax from down the Annapolis Valley to demonstrate in front of the provincial legislature March 3. The numbers didn’t matter to them

WHEN WE THINK OF ESSENTIAL WORKERS we immediately think about doctors and nurses and police and firefighters. Essential? Absolutely.

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MAUD NEVORET AND VISHAN CHARAMIS ARE JUST LIKE BOB MARLEY. They use music to inform and liberate. In “Redemption Song” Marley sang: “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but our self can free our minds.” Maud and Vishan are using rap to do that in Montreal.

EMILY BULMER LIKES TO PROTEST... IN HER OWN WAY. She does it with wit, intelligence, malice toward none and courage—the courage to do it right next to a group not known for being anything like that.

A SHADOW HAUNTS OUR FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE. And it costs us big time says the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC).

SHANNON HARDY ISN’T AFRAID OF THE “A-WORD.” She believes saying the word abortion out loud, and often, is necessary to making a woman’s right to choose as normal, natural and acceptable as any other right. That’s not the way it is right now, she says.

BOSSES CAN’T HIDE BEHIND APPS ANY MORE. Couriers for the app-based food delivery company Foodora have won the right to unionize. This is the first time app-based workers in Canada have won access to that right.