WORK FOUR DAYS, GET PAID FOR FIVE. It’s every workers dream. Employers are actually starting to like it too.

THINK TINY IS A BIG IDEA WHEN IT COMES TO HOMELESSNESS. Tiny home communities for the homeless are being constructed all across North America as one solution to homelessness. It’s easy to see why.

DR. BRIAN DAY BENT THE RULES TO MAKE MONEY. The B.C. Supreme Court has ordered him to stop.

JASON MacLEAN REFUSES TO DUMMY UP. The president of NSGEU (Nova Scotia Government Employees Union) wants all Nova Scotia to know all his members know about what happened inside Northwood Manor—the long-term care facility that became ground zero for covid deaths in Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia government not so much.

SHE’S ON STRIKE BECAUSE WELFARE IS NOT AN OPTION. “I want my kids to be proud of me,” says the middle aged, single mom in the Unifor video of striking Dominion store workers in Newfoundland and Labrador.

BLAMING THE RCMP WASN’T GOING TO HELP. So the Indigenous community in Cape Breton didn’t do it. Instead they relied on themselves to imagine and then create their own community emergency alert system—a first for Indigenous people in Canada.

IT WASN’T HOCKEY BUT IT WAS A POWER PLAY. Pro basketball players went on a 24-hour strike August 26 to use their popularity and influence to support the Black Lives Matter movement and the demand for an immediate end to police attacks on, and murders of, Black people. Players in all other major pro sports leagues soon also went on strike in solidarity.

THE MYSTIQUE DIDN’T LAST LONG FOR SOPHIA HENRY. She thought being a barista in a “hip,” upscale Vancouver coffee shop would be “cool” and a lot different than working for some faceless, heartless corporation. It wasn’t. Revealing that reality online was enough to make one cafe owner quit the business.

IT'S ALMOST A LAW OF NATURE: WORKERS ARE ALWAYS EXPECTED TO "TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM."  When the economy, or a sector of it, takes a dive, unionized workers are expected to ease the business pain with wage and benefits cuts—with “concessions.” COVID-19 has given employers a fresh excuse to demand concessions. We’re all in this together, right?

JEFF BEZOS THINKS HE’S SPECIAL. HE’S NOT. The people of Seattle have seen to that. The richest man in the world is finally going to have to pay taxes just like the rest of us.