AVANTI IS NOT a menu choice Starbucks is ever likely to add to “vente” and “grande”. But avanti—moving forward—is on the menu for more and more Starbucks workers.

KEEPING COOL could get Cindy Therrien evicted. Therrien is using her A/C unit and is refusing to pay extra for its use. Her landlord warned her, back in June, that doing that could lead to eviction. Therrien is willing to risk it to stay well.

British Columbia Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) will soon deploy it’s first electric vehicles—including the first electric ambulance in Canada.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING in Nova Scotia should be easier to come by and keep thanks to $13 million in forgivable government loans.

JOHN CARTWRIGHT knows the kind of Canada he wants. He knows it’s not anything like the kind the Convoy cult wants. He also knows it will take more than wishing and hoping to get his kind of Canada. That’s why he pushed so hard to bring people together to form the nationwide Community Solidarity Project.

IT’S A SIMPLE fact: the only way to make sure your truth gets out, is to tell it yourself. The residents who live in the Ottawa neighbourhoods occupied during the truckers’ convoy last winter are doing just that

THE BLIZZARD DIDN’T SCARE RACHEL CREASOR. Neither did the law. Nor the fact she was the only one picketing. She knew what she had to do back in February 2017 and she did it. Five years later the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia agreed with her.

MOST OF US TAKE CLEAN water for granted. In Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal, it’s hard to imagine that anybody would go without clean water running out of their tap, for a week, let alone a decade. Sadly, this isn’t the case for Indigenous communities all across the country.

IT SHOULD BE A NO BRAINER: employers should not be able to use “scabs” as replacement workers during a strike. Allowing employers to do it denies any possibility of an equal contest between employers and workers—something our Charter of Rights and Freedoms sets out to guarantee. But, that’s not how the federal government and most provinces see it.

AMAZON HAS A UNION TARGET on its back in Canada. Two unions in two provinces are out to unionize three Amazon workplaces here: one in Quebec, one in Ontario and one in Alberta.