TREATING WORKERS LIKE SHIT IS NOT UNUSUAL. Doing that when you depend on them to keep you safe is brainless. But that hasn’t stopped Dexterra. And that’s why 40 industrial janitors who work for them at the 40-billion dollar LNG Canada project in Kitimat, B.C. are set to strike.

CHANGE IS BREWING IN NOVA SCOTIA. You can taste it.

WINNIPEG COPS STILL LIKE IT. More and more teachers, parents and students don’t. Their stories about why they don’t convinced administrators to review—and maybe even end the School Resource Officer (SRO) program—a program that puts uniformed and armed cops on patrol in school corridors

HUMAN SOLIDARITY KNOWS NO BORDERS. The proof was out in the streets in British Columbia Dec 2 and 5 when hundreds rallied to support farmers on strike 11,000 km away in India.

JILL WEBB GOT HER JOB BACK. She wouldn’t have without her union. Even then it wasn’t easy. Why it wasn’t, and why she was fired to begin with, raises it’s own questions.

ERIN BROCKOVICH WAS A NOBODY who became a big somebody when she led and won a grassroots fight against a giant corporation that was killing people with contaminated water in tiny Hinkley, California.

POTATOES ARE BIG ON P.E.I. Maybe too big. Unless you are billionaires like the Irving clan.

‘MUM, I FOUND MY PEOPLE’ exclaimed one young man at the end of the first African Nova Scotian Freedom School last summer. Rachel Zellars and Wendie Wilson wanted nothing better.

‘LEAVE YOUR ARMOUR AT THE DOOR’ is the informal motto of the Dudes Club, an organization of mutual aid and support for men by men.

GOODWILL GESTURES WON’T CUT IT for healthcare workers in Alberta, says Bonnie Gostola. Particularly when you plan to take jobs away from 11,000 of them in the middle of a pandemic.