“NOT YOU”, IS NOT THE APPROVED ANSWER. But it is the answer some Alberta health care workers now get when they ask: “Who gets the leftover vaccine?”

THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES. This is not a management technique that often works. But it is the one favoured by Alberta Health Services (AHS) in the runup to negotiations with thousands of health care workers it oversees.

ALGORITHMS ARE THE BEST MEDICINE. The government of Newfoundland and Labrador has bet millions on it. Health-care workers say it is a bad bet for them and all the people they work hard to care for.

HE WANTED TO STRIKE A BLOW FOR FEMINISM. He didn’t. In fact, when Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil announced a grant of $5 million to rich women, as a way to help all women, he triggered activist anger and condemnation.

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.