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.

IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN. It’s November 13. People are dying of Covid-19 in Long Term Care homes—again. Despite all the protestations and public laments of Doug Ford in Ontario and the willful denial of Francois Legualt in Québec, the nightmare is back. Right now. Today. Eight months after it started.

GLOOSCAP MUST BE SMILING. How could the Great Spirit of the Mi’kmaq not be when his people have so deftly played the great white money game to win big for themselves.

IT WAS JUST TOO MUCH for housekeepers and other frontline healthcare workers in Alberta October 26. Thousands of them, all members of the Alberta Union of Public Employees (AUPE), walked off the job at 49 hospitals and other worksites. It was their way to show Jason Kenney their anger and their strength.

BOB SILVERSTEIN DIDN’T LET IT GO. His father-in-law was dead. The facts of how and where wouldn’t let Bob forgive or forget.