UNNECESSARY, UNWISE, UNDEMOCRATIC about sums up popular opposition to Doug Ford’s Bill 23, a plan to remove 7,400 acres of farmland and natural areas from protected Greenbelt lands in the Golden Horseshoe region of southern Ontario.* Popular opposition is nothing new for Ford these days. What is new is the makeup of up this opposition.

QUITTING IS NEVER an option for Janice Hobbs-Martell. She won’t quit until every single one of the 25,000 Ontario miners exposed to deadly McIntyre Powder receive and official apology for the way they were treated.

OUR PREMIERS ARE SOL. They can no longer cry poor. The truth is provinces are rolling in dough, flush with enough surplus cash to fully fund all the programs for people we want.

THE OFFICIAL TRUTH IS NEVER ENOUGH. It never includes what it was, and is, like for the people who get caught in the middle of a catastrophe they could not escape. The Ottawa People’s Commission on the Convoy Occupation continues to work away to provide that part of the convoy truth.

QUOC TRUONG HAS A REAL JOB. He’s a licenced steamfitter. He’s also a Hammer Heads program graduate­—one of over 500 workers who have gained the skills they needed to get solid, well-paid jobs in the licenced building trades.

BETTY LUPTON was walking a picket line in Vancouver last week. But she isn’t on strike. Lupton is one of about 1000 shipyard workers walking picket lines in solidarity with 165 workers who are on strike.

THEY'RE ON A ROLL. The tenants at 5781 Côte St. Luc Road in Montreal began by winning their 2019 fight to save their buildings from demolition; then they led the charge to defeat the mayor who approved the demolitions; now they have the new mayor’s promise to protect tenants rights with a revised town bylaw.

MONTREAL IS NOT IN THE USA. That reality could make all the difference to the workers who want to join a union at the Amazon warehouse in Lachine, Quebec.

AVANTI IS NOT a menu choice Starbucks is ever likely to add to “vente” and “grande”. But avanti—moving forward—is on the menu for more and more Starbucks workers.

KEEPING COOL could get Cindy Therrien evicted. Therrien is using her A/C unit and is refusing to pay extra for its use. Her landlord warned her, back in June, that doing that could lead to eviction. Therrien is willing to risk it to stay well.