Tag Archives: Workers' Rights

Back To Work

February 23, 2026 · by · in Society · Leave a comment

It’s Monday. For most people it is the start of the work week. For Canada’s civil servants it is another day closer to having to go back to work. It’s not that they haven’t been working. It is just that they have been working from home. They have been told that will change this summer, […]

Is This Fair?

August 17, 2025 · by · in Leadership, Politics, Society, Travel · Leave a comment

Air Canada’s10,000 flight attendants went on strike Saturday morning, bringing the airline’s operations of a halt. By early afternoon the federal government had stepped in, ordering the strikers back to work and imposing binding arbitration. So much for collective bargaining and the right to strike. The central issue in the dispute is pay for unpaid […]

A Matter of Choice

December 27, 2021 · by · in Religion, Society · 2 Comments

“I am an adult. I get to choose.”  I found that quote when looking through my notes, trying to decide what I would write about today. I don’t remember everything about the conversation. I do remember the context. The speaker was a woman, a political refugee from a Middle Eastern country. Her crime was advocating […]