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ALL HE GOT WAS $2.01. Everett Richardson had worked 10 days to get it. Ten days on on a deepsea dragger on the North Atlantic off Nova Scotia, on the open deck, in February, 10 days—and that was all he got!

THERE ARE TWO “INVISIBLE HANDS” AT WORK IN OUR DAILY LIVES. One is mythical and one is very real. The mythical one excites Bay Street. The real one lives in places like Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia.

WE ARE ALL MEANT TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE. We’re all led to believe Mountain Equipment (MEC) is a real co-op. It isn’t. But, pro-union votes by workers at two of the company’s stores may make the company claim a little more legit. Not that MEC ever cared.

DEBBIE TRINIER DOESN’T THINK MUCH OF JASON KENNEY. No more than any of the over 400 Albertans in the standing room only crowd in Edmonton on December 2.

MARVIN MILLER FINALLY GOT HIS HOME RUN. The man who brought unions into baseball was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on December 9. No thanks to the powers that be inside baseball, or the baseball union Miller founded.

IT’S ONE STRANGE WAY TO RUN A CO-OP. Managers of the Co-op Refinery in Regina locked out their 800 workers on December 5. After the workers refused to give in to a demand they accept management changes to their pension plan.

THE CN STRIKE WAS DEJA VIEW ALL OVER AGAIN. The employer worked hard to make the workers the badest of bad guys, as usual—and the media bought it, as usual. Facts never entered into it.

WE’LL SEE WHAT THE COURTS SAY! That’s the defiant message 15 young Canadian climate change activists sent to the federal government October 25. The 15 filed a lawsuit against the federal government for failing to protect them from the looming dangers of climate change.