CHILD LABOUR IS BACK. But in a good way, according to the CAQ government in Québec. Child labour is not a social evil anymore—something to outlaw. Now it is a fact of economic life—something we need to normalize. The CAQ has proposed a law to do just that.

BEING A SOCIALIST is never easy—particularly not in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia these days—not given how the government fails to ease the shameful shortage of health-care workers in the tiny community of 1000 barely an hours drive south of Halifax.

DEATH BY LANDLORD in not a criminal offence in Canada—but Randy Sears thinks it should be. He hopes to make that case in a $22-million lawsuit against Emile Benamor, the owner of an Old Montreal building that burned down March 16.

AMIR FARSOUD CHOSE DEATH ahead of homelessness.

GALEN WESTON smiles a lot in his TV commercials these days. He should. Weston is 42% richer than he was two years ago—so are all the billionaire-owners at the top of the agribusiness pyramid.

WHEN IS A PROMISE NOT A PROMISE? Not knowing could cost you. It recently cost a union in B.C. $500,000.

THINGS AREN’T GOING OUR WAY. That’s nothing new. But things seem really off this time. We all feel it. And we are not wrong. Truth bomb: Corporate sector winning the economic recovery lottery; workers falling behind, a recent study by David Macdonald ald for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), details exactly how right right we are to feel how wrong things are.

REG PHALEN QUIT FLAT. He was afraid he’d be left homeless if he didn’t.

“TIPS TURN WORKERS INTO BEGGARS.” That’s Mary Brown’s story. And she’s sticking to it.

THERE ARE MORE SHIT JOBS in Ontario now than ever before: five times as many workers get paid the minimum wage now, as workers did 20 years ago; one third or all Ontario workers make no more than $16.60 an hour, today. And yet, big business and all their kept politicians, keep claiming Ontario is pretty much a workers’ paradise. A new study from the Toronto-based Workers’ Action Centre (WAC) reveals how deeply absurd and false that claim is.