WE CAN’T “LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT”. Nor should we. That’s the simple premise of Suppress the Virus Now!—a growing movement of citizen activists dedicated to a radical alternative strategy to squeeze the life out of COVID-19.

HE WASN’T HIRED TO CLEAN CLOSETS. But that’s what Nicholas Marcus Thompson wound up doing. He says it happened to him because he is Black. He says it was racial discrimination pure and simple. The kind Black workers in the federal public service endure on the job every day, he says. It’s why Thompson wants to take the federal government to court.

IT’S LIKE A UNION-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB. Workers at four of the stores in the Indigo book store chain have voted union since late September 2020.

Despite much handwringing by federal, provincial and municipal governments the deaths in LTC homes continue unabated! It’s a national crisis that deserves action now.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE A SWEAT SHOP? Deficating in buckets? Padlocked exits? Random speed ups? Verbal tirades? Racial insults? Arbitrary fines and firings. Inadequate PPE? Poverty wages? Canada Goose clothing factories in Winnipeg have all that. But no union. Not yet.

THEY WEREN'T THINKING REVOLUTION. But that hardly matters. The possibility of revolution is a whole lot easier to believe in now because of what they did. The "little people" rose up. They used Wall Street rules to beat Wall Street. They did it with spontaneous, self-directed, collective action. Exactly as revolutionaries would.

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.