A Happy Labour Day 2025 To You!! … With An Important Message

Celebrating The Everyday People, And That Means Most Of Us, Who Make Canada One Of The Greatest Countries In The World To Live

“Have You Been Aware?
You Got Brothers And Sisters Who Care
About What’s Gonna Happen To You
In A Year From Now

Maybe I’ll Be There To Shake Your Hand (Shake Your Hand)
Maybe I’ll Be There To Share The Land (Share The Land)
That They’ll Be Givin’ Away
When We All Live Together,”

A Brief Note From Doug Draper At Niagara At Large

Posted On Labour Day, September 1^st. 2025

This Labour Day, my thoughts go back to the darkest days of the COVID pandemic just a few years ago when our politicians at the municipal, provincial and federal level locked our public buildings up to us like Brinks trucks while employees at grocery stores went on working every day so that we could put food on our tables.

Meanwhile, the billionaire owners of the grocery chains like the Westons, who gave their employees a two-dollar-an hour bonus at first to work during such perilous times, turned around a took that bonus away as soon as they could, putting the workers back to the minimum or near minimum wage level that they have lobbied to keep as low as possible for decades now.

It is just one example of why we should support everyday working people across our region, province and country every chance we get.

While their corporate employers were making record profits, they were among those who went on working for low wages during the worst of times.

One very important way to do it is to resist using the growing number of robots, automated letters and others machines that  corporate retailers, big banks and others are installing to replace working people. If there is one real human teller left where you do your banking or one real human cashier left where you are buying your groceries or one person left in a pay booth at a gas station, go to them instead.

If you can go out to a brick and mortar store and buy what you want there instead of ordering it online, do that too. It is also a way of getting out and mixing with other people in our communities rather than staying home and feeling lonely and depressed.

Those are just a few ways we can all help each other survive during these difficult times.

Now I will leave you with a song by one of Canada’s greatest rock bands of all time, The Guess Who, that I think captures some of the spirit of Labour Day. To hear and watch the group perform it, click on the screen immediately below –

• Doug Draper, Niagara At Large

P.S. – Not so long ago I would have included our American neighbours in a piece like this but right now, the way we are being treated by their president and his enablers, I can’t do it.

As long as Trump keeps waging this punishing trade war against us and tossing around the idea of making Canada a 51st state, let’s stand together buy boycotting everything Made in the U.S.A. and by purchasing as much as we can from Canadian producers instead.

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“A Politician Thinks Of The Next Election. A Leader Thinks Of The Next Generation.” – Bernie Sanders