The Mental-Health Mirage: Inside WorkSafeBC’s Support Illusion
When psychological injury meets a system built to contain, not support. SummaryWorkSafeBC promotes psychological safety with public campaigns, training language, and wellness messaging. Workers are told help exists. The lived experience tells a different story. Mental health cases are absorbed, delayed, blended, and quietly forgotten. The protection is theatrical. The outcome is administrative containment, not […]
THE SECOND HR DEPARTMENT
How the Modern Union Protects Power, Not People For most workers, the union was supposed to be the line in the sand, the firewall between management’s power and your paycheck. In British Columbia’s public sector, that line has blurred to the point of parody. The modern union no longer fights the employer; it negotiates with […]
“The Loophole Loop: How BC Built an Accountability Dead End”
BC Ombudspersons Gives OPIC Free Pass The BC Ombudsperson has confirmed what many already suspected: there’s no real oversight of BC’s privacy watchdog. If the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) mishandles your file, no one has the legal authority to investigate them. The Ombudsperson’s own words: “We do not have the legal […]
The Missing Millions in Rural Healthcare
A government program promised better clinics. We found empty buildings, fake invoices, and no oversight.
