JERRY EARLE WANTS BUSINESS TO JUST BUTT OUT. The president of the 30,000-member Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees (NAPE) told them that in no uncertain terms in a public news conference January 19.

DON’T LET THEIR BIG SMILES FOOL YOU. Tim’s, Loblaws and Walmart are not our friends. What we see, is not what we get.

DOING THE RIGHT THING IS THE SMART THING

JERI-LYNN HORTON WOULD FAIL KINDERGARTEN. She refuses to share.

IRENE BRECKON WANTS US ALL TO GET MORE THAN CRUMBS.

YOU WORK. YOU GET PAID. SIMPLE. NOT FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Thousands upon thousands of federal government workers have been paid too much, too little, too late, or not at all since February 2016. The stories of the disruption and damage to their lives go on and on.

WORK CAN RUIN YOUR MENTAL HEALTH. But the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario (WSIB) hates to have to now admit it. So they’ve decided to make life more difficult for workers suffering with chronic mental stress.

IT’S JUST TOO DAMN HARD TO JOIN A UNION. That’s the compelling conclusion of new research from the Canadian Labour Institute (CLI). It is also a resounding rebuke to all the bogus “evidence” that unions just don’t matter any more.

THEY SAY THEY DON’T HATE THE HOMELESS. But a lot of people in the Ottawa neighbourhood of Vanier are fighting hard to keep them out.

THREE DOWN. A BAZILLION MORE TO GO.That’s not how the Liberals are billing their three proposed tax changes to bring a tiny bit of fairness to our tax system—but they could.