HOW CAN WE FIX IT? It’s a question that haunts us still. After 300 years of living together, relations between us and them (Settlers and the Indigenous) continue to be unsettled and unsettling. True, deep and lasting reconciliation continues to elude every attempt to achieve it. Yet men and women of good will keep trying.

MILLENNIALS TO BOOMERS: IT’S SO OVER. Millennials are #over waiting for you to fight climate change for us. Hundreds of young people gathered in Ottawa from February 14th to 18th to prove it.

GOOD NEWS IS NO NEWS. Not in 2019. So we don’t hear a lot about how good Medicare is. In fact, the truth that there is good news about Medicare will itself be news to a lot of Canadians.

PISSING OFF THE UNIONS DIDN’T HELP. But that wasn’t the only problem with the deal to bring the second Amazon headquarters (HQ2) to New York City.

UNIONS HAVE THE SUPREME COURT ON THEIR SIDE. The proof of that is set out in detail in Brave New World: Fundamental Labour Rights in the Charter Era, the latest major study from the Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights (CFLR).

SHIRLEY PECK BEAT THE ODDS. She and her union took on the Canadian military and won.

BOAT HARBOUR COULD BE JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S PERFECT STORM. The one that sinks his re-election hopes. The storm centre is in a tiny town in Nova Scotia—but the elements in it could stir the hearts and consciences of millions from coast to coast.

JUST DO IT! The slogan they used to sell us tons of shit that wrecks the environment may be the best advice on how we can actually do something direct to protect our environment.

CATHERINE GAUTHIER IS AFRAID FOR HER LIFE. She blames Justin Trudeau. She wants the courts to order the prime minister to do a lot more to end her fears.

YA GOTTA LOVE WORKING FOLKS. They can always see through all the baloney and bullshit to do something good. That’s why Canadian air traffic controllers sent hundreds of pizzas to American air traffic controllers on January 11.