TAKING IT TO THE STREETS has a whole new meaning in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver these days. Teams of dedicated health care professionals are out in the streets taking the COVID-19 vaccine to the most vulnerable in the city. The results are impressive.

NICOLE GNAZDOWSKY KNOWS THE CRUEL TRUTH. What she doesn’t know is why and how. What else she doesn’t know—and can’t explain—is why she is the one working the hardest to find out.

IS THE CHIEF WILLIAM SAULIS FISHING BOAT A COFFIN? The RCMP is in no hurry to find out.

NURSES ARE NOT UNBREAKABLE. Nobody knows this better than Cecilia Yeung—a BC nurse who started a support group to help nurses suffering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).

ITS LIKE ROAD RAGE WITHOUT THE CARS. Retail workers are now targets of customer anger verging on rage. “We had the occasional mean and picky customer before Covid-19,” says Shannon Ferris, “but now it’s a million times worse.”

STEPHEN McNEIL DOESN’T DENY THE ATTACK. He just doesn’t see why the union has to complain about it and take attention away from all the great work he is doing.

SHANNON LEUNG USED TO HAVE THE LAW ON HER SIDE. Not so much anymore.
Not since her boss decided to disobey the labour standards law guaranteeing her right to severence pay.

HEROES DON’T DESERVE A PAY CUT. But they got one anyway. All our big grocery chains recently clawed back the $2-an-hour “hero pay” they had given their workers in the early days of the corona pandemic.

LOIDA UBAY KNOWS ALL ABOUT SACRIFICE. The kind she welcomes and the kind she can’t avoid.

IT’S THE LAST LIST ANYONE WANTS TO TOP. It’s a list of jobs ranked by the risk of getting the coronavirus, from the most risky to the least. The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) created the list as part of a campaign to promote COVID-19 awareness and caution among workers as they go back to work.