Tima Miroshnichenko via Pexels In 2014, Lettia McNickle showed up for her shift at Madisons New York Grill & Bar in downtown Montreal wearing cornrows. She was sent home by her manager. Her hours were cut, and she was eventually fired. Four years later, the Quebec Human Rights Commission ruled that McNickle had been the […] More »

Illustration by Arson Vremea Dear Unemployment, I met you over two years ago, in October, 2023, when I lost my job after two years. I felt suffocated by the heavy-handedness of the new manager, things came to a head, we parted ways. I was looking to take a breather, but just a few days in, […] More »

Thoughts on the creative value of taking a break “MY LIFE IN MONTREAL WAS SO GOOD,” said the songwriter Sean Nicholas Savage in a recent interview for Bad Day magazine. “We did so many projects. We made tons of albums and we were making movies and just doing tons of shit all the time.” Savage […] More »

Could you live on $14,000 a year? Could everyone in Canada? And could we live on $14,000 a year for the rest of history? That’s the sort of uncomfortable, prickly question Peter Victor likes to ask. And the way you answer might say a lot about the future of the planet. That’s because Victor is […] More »