EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IS PRETTY MUCH A SCAM. Four out of ten jobless workers get nothing out of the plan—no matter how much they paid into it or for how long. What benefits workers do get are skimpy and end too soon.

WHEN IS A WORKER NOT A WORKER? When you work as a crown attorney in Nova Scotia.

DOUG FORD HAD MADE IT EASIER TO BUY BOOZE IN ONTARIO. It's all part of his plan to make it easier for his drinking business buddies to make big bucks doing it.

SOMETIMES WHITE SUPREMACY IS A MURAL. So says Tundè Balogun, the founder of The Objective News Agency in Halifax, NS.

MOST OF US THINK IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE. Tax the rich more. Get more of what we need from those with way more than they need. Simple.

SOME OLD PEOPLE ARE WORTH MORE THAN OTHERS. At least that’s how the provincial paymasters in Nova Scotia see it. That means some of the workers who care for the elderly in the province will get a promised cash award and some won’t.

THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE OF VANCOUVER MAY NOT BE HELL ON EARTH. But it keeps edging closer to it.

WHAT KIND OF A DEALER, ER RETAILER, CAN'T MAKE MONEY SELLING WEED?  Only Doug Ford’s Conservatives.

AN AIR AMBULANCE WITHOUT DOCTORS WAS NOT WHAT GORDON JEBB NEEDED. But that’s what the the 53-year-old heart attack victim from The Pas, Manitoba got on July 2.

THE SO-CALLED ‘MAGIC OF THE MARKET’ FAILED AGAIN. We still have a housing crisis more than 10 years after the 2008 meltdown of the world economy—something the universal application of an austerity agenda was supposed to fix. Letting the so-called “free market” fix things only made matters worse.