CHILEANS HAVE DARED TO BET ON THEMSELVES. If they win, they will give themselves the kind of democracy they have always wanted. But, no one is calling it a sure thing.

HIGH INFLATION IS BAD FOR BOSSES. But not for unions. They have a track record. Unions are the ones—the only ones—who have fought this fight before and won it. They are already winning it again.

THE VICTORY IS BITTERSWEET for Mike Yorke, president of the Carpenters Union District Council of Ontario. Every first aid kit, on every construction site in Ontario will soon include naloxone, a drug that can temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Yorke’s happy about that. He’s not happy that it is so necessary.

THE DRIVE TO OWN A HOUSE is killing us. It has turned every mortgage holder, of every city condo and every house in a suburb, into a property speculator. Each and every one looking to “make a killing” in a red hot housing market.

THE COCKROACH POSTER made it plain. The 23 tenants at 12 Lansdowne Ave. in Toronto were no pushovers. They were gong to make their fight to avoid evictions something else again. They did. And it worked.

STAND TOGETHER AND YOU’LL WIN. That’s the age old union story. And it’s true. It happened again in early April for 20 workers in a women’s shelter in Napanee, Ontario. They won their strike. Got a decent settlement. Good for them. But nothing very important beyond that. Except for the fact that what they did together reminds us where our true strengths and all our collective hopes lie.

DOUG FORD HAS DARED to touch the third rail. He has dared to mess with health care in Ontario. It should hurt, even kill, his bid to be reelected premier in June. But it won’t. Not unless enough people know he’s done it. Many are determined to make sure all Ontario knows

GETTING IT WRONG WAS A GOOD THING. The expectation that COVID-19 spending would create high provincial deficits was wrong. In fact, so wrong that provincial deficits are now doing “a dramatic disappearing act.”

“HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM” was the message on one of the placards demonstrators carried outside the Nova Scotia legislature March 21.

AMAZON COULDN’T STOP CHRIS SMALLS. Every time they tried to he came back stronger and bolder.