TAX COLLECTORS AND DUCK HUNTERS should have a lot in common. Duck hunters know: “If you want to hunt ducks go to where the ducks are.” Canada’s tax collectors don’t seem to get that. They almost never go to where the ducks are.

“INSHORE LOBSTER FISHERMEN ARE SCARED SHITLESS," SAYS CORY FRANCIS. "And they should be," he says. "They really should be.” And it’s all because of big money.

GALEN WESTON IS LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK—AGAIN. So are 20 of Canada’s biggest billionaires.

JASON KENNEY IS IN NO RUSH TO PAY UP. It’s been four months since he promised to top-up frontline workers pay in Alberta. There’s no sign he’ll keep his promise any time soon.

THE MI’KMAW WERE THERE TO FISH AND CELEBRATE. The non-Indigenous locals were there to stop them.

FGF BRANDS DIDN’T CARE ENOUGH. Neither did public health officials. Covid-19 killed one worker at the giant FGF industrial bakery in Toronto, infected 184 more, public health officials said nothing. This is not how they promised us it would be. But, it’s how it almost always is in Ontario now.

WHOSE LAND IS IT ANYWAY? Indigenous activists in Caledonia, Ontario have removed their blockades, but the question remains unanswered.

MIGRANT FARMWORKERS IN CANADA FACE A FEARSOME CHOICE. Stay silent and suffer. Speak up and suffer. There seems to be no end to the ritual humiliation and cruelty they are forced to endure. None of it is secret.

SPREADING BULLSHIT SHOULDN’T BE THIS EASY. The idea that the CERB payments are a drag on business recovery made the headlines. It’s pure bullshit. But it made the headlines because a news release from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) said it’s true.

NADEN ABENES WON’T EAT TODAY. She’s on the second day of a hunger strike along with nine other members of Unite Here Local 40 in Vancouver, B.C. The hotel workers say their extreme action is necessary to bring attention to their fear of being denied work once the hospitality industry completely reopens.