FOOD ACTIVISTS SELDOM GET TO SIT AT THE GROWNUPS TABLE. Wayne Roberts thinks this is a mistake.

THERE’S GOOD NEWS ABOUT MEDICARE: we can make it even better. The proof is in Canadian Health Care: The art of the possible, a study from the Public Services Foundation of Canada (PSFC). It is the latest salvo in the foundation’s ongoing campaign to celebrate, protect and expand our Medicare.

SMOKEY THOMAS SAYS THIS TIME IT’S DIFFERENT. This time a union is going to affect who wins an election. He might actually be right.

DR. DANIELLE MARTIN KNOWS HOW TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER. She became famous for it. It's all part of her fierce and proud commitment to Medicare.

WHAT DOCTORS DON’T KNOW CAN HURT YOU. Norway created its Electronic Health Library to meet that reality head on. The library offers all Norwegians access to the best medical knowledge in the world—all online.

WALK THE TALK AND EVERYBODY WINS. That’s the lesson school teachers left their classrooms to teach in West Virgina in March. They taught it in just nine days.

THE ATTACK BY HER HUSBAND DIDN’T MATTER. Being completely stressed out because of it didn’t matter. Julianne* had to drive into work the next morning regardless. She shouldn’t have. She got into a car accident.

THEY FIRED HER TO SILENCE HER. Now Sue McIntyre can go back to work and talk it up.

CELEBRATING WOMEN IS NOT HARD. What’s hard is trying to make a list limited to just 10 great women activists. But, we gave it a shot. Just to get things rolling.

THE BOSS LIED TO THEM FOR YEARS AND THEY KNEW IT. They knew their work was making them sick. They knew a study by the boss that said it wasn’t was bogus. Now the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) says the workers were right all along.