MOST OF US THINK IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE. Tax the rich more. Get more of what we need from those with way more than they need. Simple.

SOME OLD PEOPLE ARE WORTH MORE THAN OTHERS. At least that’s how the provincial paymasters in Nova Scotia see it. That means some of the workers who care for the elderly in the province will get a promised cash award and some won’t.

THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE OF VANCOUVER MAY NOT BE HELL ON EARTH. But it keeps edging closer to it.

Doug Ford promised a government for the people. But it’s becoming pretty clear that it only means a few select people, mostly his friends. Two of them, Chris Froggatt and Kory Teneycke, helped him get elected. Now they’re helping themselves

AN AIR AMBULANCE WITHOUT DOCTORS WAS NOT WHAT GORDON JEBB NEEDED. But that’s what the the 53-year-old heart attack victim from The Pas, Manitoba got on July 2.

THE SO-CALLED ‘MAGIC OF THE MARKET’ FAILED AGAIN. We still have a housing crisis more than 10 years after the 2008 meltdown of the world economy—something the universal application of an austerity agenda was supposed to fix. Letting the so-called “free market” fix things only made matters worse.

PAY YOUR FARE AND TAKE YOUR CHANCES. That’s how it is now for Ontario seniors who use public transit. They might get a $450 yearly tax benefit to offset what they spend on fares—and they might not.

Putting foxes in the WSIB henhouse

EVEN HAVING A JOB DOESN’T HELP. A healthy majority of more than eight in ten workers say they have too much to worry about, too much stress.

“I WAS NOT A COMMUNIST ANTI-WAR DUPE IN THE 1960s. Just the way I am not a Big Oil dupe today,” says Don Charles. “But that’s not what Jason Kenney wants us all to believe.”