UNNECESSARY, UNWISE, UNDEMOCRATIC about sums up popular opposition to Doug Ford’s Bill 23, a plan to remove 7,400 acres of farmland and natural areas from protected Greenbelt lands in the Golden Horseshoe region of southern Ontario.* Popular opposition is nothing new for Ford these days. What is new is the makeup of up this opposition.

“WORK HURT or don’t work at all.” That’s all you need to know about why so many construction workers suffer with substance abuse, says carpenter Jack Raymond. “Employers are the only ones who can fix that,” says Raymond. “If so many of us didn’t get hurt, and fired once we are hurt, there wouldn’t be a ‘drug abuse problem’ in construction in the first place.”

QUITTING IS NEVER an option for Janice Hobbs-Martell. She won’t quit until every single one of the 25,000 Ontario miners exposed to deadly McIntyre Powder receive and official apology for the way they were treated.