CYNDI LAUPER WAS PROBABLY RIGHT: MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING. But we can never be sure how. That’s at the heart of the debate over a Guaranteed Annual Income.

MISOGYNY KNOWS NO RHYME OR REASON. If it did it would treat Jane Clegg and Tammie Jo Shults the same. But it doesn’t.

THE FEDS ARE OUT TO LOWER STUDENT DEBT—THE HARD WAY. By collecting, not reducing.

THEY’RE YOUNG. THEY’RE WOMEN. THEY NEED TO BE PUT IN THEIR PLACE. That’s probably not the message the Stephen McNeil government in Nova Scotia had in mind when it recently refused to meet with the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS-NS). But, that’s how it came out.

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.