THERE WAS SOMETHING DARK ABOUT IT ALL. Dark enough so that the mass evictions of more than 500 Heron Gate residents last year prompted a human rights complaint against the City of Ottawa and the landlord behind the largest mass eviction in Canadian history.

THE RICH MAKE APRIL THE CRUELEST MONTH. It is the month we have to pay our taxes. That often leads us to dark thoughts about the whole system; dark thoughts about who pays what and whether what we pay gives us all that we deserve to get.

DOUG FORD FAILS TO DELIVER AGAIN. Ford and the Conservatives promised that people making minimum wage would be better off getting a tax break in place of a scheduled $1 per hour increase to the minimum wage. Now we find that’s not the case.

YOU'RE NOT LIKELY TO MAKE THE CUT. You’re not likely to make enough to cash in on the juiciest income tax breaks in Canada. It's Catch 22 one more time: the ones who need tax breaks most, don’t get them; the ones who don’t need tax breaks at all, get them. Big time.

YOU WORK. YOU GET PAID. Thirty-five thousand students in Quebec took to the streets to drive home that simple principle again in mid-March.

Doug Ford says that he wants our young uns to learn readin’, ritin’ and rithmetic. Back to the basics. What does that look like? Here’s what we do know so far.

THEY CALL IT ‘CODE CRITICAL’. But the government continues to ignore warnings from the 1,100 paramedics in Nova Scotia. This is bad for the paramedics and bad for the general public, says the union representing them. So bad the paramedics have taken to twitter to warn the public about it.

ONTARIO IS IN TROUBLE. Everybody living there—your family and friends—everybody, they’re all in trouble. They need our support.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford brushes aside science and parents to impose cuts to benefits for almost every child with autism in Ontario

NUNAVUT MAY BE THE HUNGER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. Food Secure Canada says food insecurity rates in Nunavut are the highest among indigenous people anywhere in the world.