THEY SHOULD FEEL LIKE HEROES. But they don’t. The nurses, personal support workers (PSWs), custodians, cleaners and other health care workers on the frontline in the Covid fight in Ontario feel they are being callously “sacrificed”.

CANADA COULD USE A LITTLE JIMMY McMILLAN and his The Rent Is Too Damn High Party right now.

REMEMBRANCE DAY CAME AND WENT in just three minutes for workers at Tim Hortons in Nova Scotia. That’s all the time off the law allows them.

THE ERROR MESSAGE WAS A SHOCK. What Hajar Pittman expected was an automatic approval of her application for the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB). What she got instead was an error message saying she wasn’t eligible.

BILAL BAGHA JUST WENT AHEAD AND DID IT. He and about a dozen other volunteers in Victoria, British Columbia pooled their energies and skills to build two shower stalls for people living in the open without homes. The group plans to install the stalls in Beacon Hill Park—no matter what city officials say.

PALLISTER COULD CALL THE COPS on covid. The Manitoba premier thinks doing that just might help stop the runaway spread of covid-19 in the province. Everything else he has tried so far hasn’t worked. In fact, many believe the Pallister approach to the pandemic has made it as bad as it is.

THEIR FAKE WOLF STORY FAILED. It didn’t frighten the folks in Nova Scotia. But, the fact our military used it on us to test their propaganda capabilities should frighten us all.

THEY COULD DO IT, SO THEY DID. Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited (CFCL) could not, and did not, offer any other explanation for why they behaved like Big Brother and gathered masses of personal information on shoppers in 12 of the many malls they own in Canada.

JEFF BEZOS HAD A GUILLOTINE in front of his house last summer. Amazon workers put it there. They wanted to remind their boss of how angry workers in the French Revolution took care of ultra rich people who ignored them.

WHY WASN’T I TOLD I WAS AT RISK? That’s what a teacher at Sentinel secondary in West Vancouver wants to know. The fact that she wasn’t is the basis of her formal complaint to Work Safe BC.