The temp agency that hired him now said he owed them $30,000 in “damages” for leaving his two-year assignment early. For Guzman-Diaz, then 26, the invoice was almost as much as he’d earned his entire first year on the job.

"Next week the BirthStrike movement – founded by women who, by announcing their decision not to have children, seek to focus our minds on the horror of environmental collapse – will dissolve itself, because its cause has been hijacked so virulently and persistently by population obsessives."

The provincial government needs to get serious about protecting vulnerable workers from these kinds of predatory and unscrupulous business practices.

"Iran argued the IAEA mandate was to ensure the terms of the 2015 deal were being implemented, and not to make a general review of the Iran nuclear programme prior to then. The inclusion of the word “voluntary” in the IAEA statement is a concession to Iran, since the IAEA has previously said Iran had an obligation to provide access."

The biggest supermarket chains in Canada are facing mounting pressure over their decisions to cancel pay bonuses for their front-line workers during the pandemic, with labour unions warning of heightened tensions at bargaining tables and one member of Parliament issuing fresh calls for the Competition Bureau to start an investigation.

"Just before the final sentencing, Justice Mander said Mr. Tarrant had tried and failed to justify his horrific crimes by presenting himself as a bullying victim who had been ostracized and sought revenge."