THE OFFICIAL TRUTH IS NEVER ENOUGH. It never includes what it was, and is, like for the people who get caught in the middle of a catastrophe they could not escape. The Ottawa People’s Commission on the Convoy Occupation continues to work away to provide that part of the convoy truth.

QUOC TRUONG HAS A REAL JOB. He’s a licenced steamfitter. He’s also a Hammer Heads program graduate­—one of over 500 workers who have gained the skills they needed to get solid, well-paid jobs in the licenced building trades.

BETTY LUPTON was walking a picket line in Vancouver last week. But she isn’t on strike. Lupton is one of about 1000 shipyard workers walking picket lines in solidarity with 165 workers who are on strike.

THEY'RE ON A ROLL. The tenants at 5781 Côte St. Luc Road in Montreal began by winning their 2019 fight to save their buildings from demolition; then they led the charge to defeat the mayor who approved the demolitions; now they have the new mayor’s promise to protect tenants rights with a revised town bylaw.

MONTREAL IS NOT IN THE USA. That reality could make all the difference to the workers who want to join a union at the Amazon warehouse in Lachine, Quebec.

AVANTI IS NOT a menu choice Starbucks is ever likely to add to “vente” and “grande”. But avanti—moving forward—is on the menu for more and more Starbucks workers.

KEEPING COOL could get Cindy Therrien evicted. Therrien is using her A/C unit and is refusing to pay extra for its use. Her landlord warned her, back in June, that doing that could lead to eviction. Therrien is willing to risk it to stay well.

British Columbia Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) will soon deploy it’s first electric vehicles—including the first electric ambulance in Canada.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING in Nova Scotia should be easier to come by and keep thanks to $13 million in forgivable government loans.

JOHN CARTWRIGHT knows the kind of Canada he wants. He knows it’s not anything like the kind the Convoy cult wants. He also knows it will take more than wishing and hoping to get his kind of Canada. That’s why he pushed so hard to bring people together to form the nationwide Community Solidarity Project.