CHILD LABOUR IS BACK. But in a good way, according to the CAQ government in Québec. Child labour is not a social evil anymore—something to outlaw. Now it is a fact of economic life—something we need to normalize. The CAQ has proposed a law to do just that.

BEING A SOCIALIST is never easy—particularly not in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia these days—not given how the government fails to ease the shameful shortage of health-care workers in the tiny community of 1000 barely an hours drive south of Halifax.

DO NOTHING and you’re in. It’s an approach to union membership that could rescue and rebuild the union movement say professors from the University of Waikato.