“Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: why am I doing it? What might the results be? And will I be successful? Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, proceed.”

It’s perplexing for disabled people and advocates that while so many media headlines point to the extreme financial struggles of people with disabilities in our inflationary economy, the powers that be continue debating details.

“If there’s two different companies offering the same job, you’re going to go with the company that is giving you more and giving you that work-life balance. We don’t need to be that office hero and go to work when we’re sick. It’s now frowned upon, where three years ago that was almost an expectation where no matter what, you’re at work.”

Grocery theft has always been a major problem, but with food inflation as it is, shopkeepers now fear the wrongdoers more than before.

Absent in the ongoing debate regarding funding of health care between the federal and provincial/territorial governments is the lack of openness on the part of the premiers regarding their objectives and intentions.

In a recent article, with photo in regard to “homelessness” and the homeless living in a bus shelter, I was struck by the picture. It showed how organized the person who was living in the bus shelter seemed to be. What I saw was what looked like a shelving unit and the person’s belongings organized in “an orderly fashion.” What did I expect? Well, assuming that being homeless implies “chaos,” then certainly a much less orderly appearance of the bus shelter might be expected. In essence, that person had made the bus shelter a “home.” So, what to make of that?

A coalition of mostly Indigenous organizations, families and survivors of violence has issued a statement to denounce the so-called freedom convoy for its “blatant use of Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit kin to further their own misguided and propagandic agenda.”