BEING INDIGENOUS IS DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH FAR TOO OFTEN

TAYLOR MACLEAN’S MISTAKE WAS WORKING WHILE BLACK. He’s sure of it. So are the six other janitors who worked with him cleaning the Founders Square office complex in Halifax. All of them are of African descent. None of them were kept on when the contract to clean the building recently changed hands.

WESTJET FLIGHT ATTENDANTS CAN SMELL THE COFFEE. Even better than Tim Hortons workers. They know you can’t count on the boss to always treat you right.

TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. That’s what the richest of our rich do. And we let ‘em.

DARREN PORTER IS MAD AS HELL AND IT SHOWS. Just watch his Facebook video.

• BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS A TIME FOR US TO BE GLAD AND SAD.

STEPHEN McNEIL HAS GOT IT IN FOR UNIONS. The evidence is as clear as the three court challenges his government faces over recent changes made to labour laws in Nova Scotia.

LOBLAWS LIKES TO CHEAT US. They might do it with a price-fixing scam on bread. Or they might just decide not to pay taxes on all the money them make off us. They did both for years. But the jig is up on the bread scam and it may soon be up on the tax cheating scam.

JERI LYNN HORTON IS ROLLING IN DOUGH. So much money that a good hour before lunch on January 2 she had already racked up as much income as any of the folks working in her donut shops will get for working a whole year.

WHO’S FAULT IS IT THAT JESUS SANCHEZ IS DEAD? Asking that question in 1996 may have saved Olivier Bruneau in 2016. But nobody did. Now Oliver Bruneau is dead too.