“I took every shift I could get, up to 70-hours per week, to make ends meet. With wages that low, this is what you have to do.” Lisa Cameron reports on Justin Trudeau’s 2019 promise of a federal minimum wage of at least $15 and hour, starting in 2020, and rising with inflation. We are in the final days of 2020, and yet Trudeau has taken no steps to honour this commitment.
I had this weekend’s video all picked and ready to go. Something really good, but grim, bound to leave you angry. Well, I changed my mind. Instead we offer a big league beautiful documentary on Mi’kmaq artist Alan Syliboy as he paints his mural in the Halifax International Airport.
Commissionaires at the Stanfield International Airport lost their jobs after G4S Canada won the airport’s new security contract. It is widely expected that G4S will pay its staff less than its predecessor. Maybe the Airport Authority should recognize that there is more to running an airport than the bottom line, some suggest. We also take a closer look at G4S.