ANYTHING CAN BE POLITICAL—EVEN POPCORN. Just ask Québec Premier François Legault who says he only wanted to give kids a chance to go to the movies on March break. Now he is tangled up in “popcorngate.”

THEY LOVE TO KEEP ON EYE ON US. Bosses and the police always have. But not the way they can now.

GETTING FIRED IS BAD FOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH. But Bell Media couldn’t care less. Which is strange, given how the company makes so of much of how much it cares about mental health.

CHRYSTIA FREELAND WARNED THEM NOT TO. The Finance Minister stood in the House of Commons in December and said: “I want to emphasize ... for any companies that may be listening, that the wage subsidy must be used to pay workers.”  It wasn’t.

DOING GOOD IN DARTMOUTH ISN’T EASY. City officials in Nova Scotia’s second largest city refuse to say whether or not they will let two bare-bones homeless shelters stay.

THE MONEY IS STILL SITTING IN OTTAWA. Hundreds of millions of dollars in  wage top-ups that six of our ten provinces refuse to pay out to thousands upon thousands low-wage, essential, frontline workers.

CAN EMPLOYERS GET AWAY WITH MURDER? Ariana Quesada thinks they did when Covid-19 killed her father. She thinks the police should investigate. So do the police. This is black-swan-sighting rare.

HOW COME MANAGERS COME FIRST? That’s the question Tullio DuPonti, president of Unifor 2458 had for administrators at the Erie Shores Healthcare hospital in Leamington, Ontario on January 6.

UNION SPIES ARE ALIVE AND WELL and burrowing away inside Amazon. T’was ever thus.

SHANE MacQUEEN DIDN’T EXPECT A TEA PARTY. No more than he expected casual and continuous racism. But that’s what he has faced ever since he started to work in Alberta oil fields 14 years ago.