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Jan Johnstone, an education and community leader, is the NDP’s candidate for Huron–Bruce.

Area strong enough to knock dow threes. so people being advised to stay inside the center. it's all about 50 miles off the western coast of florida. that means much of the heavy wind and heavy rain is hitting the coastline. we could see rain in this area of about 25-8 inches the storm surge, pension potentially anywhere from 2-5 feet. key west got hit hard to the morning hours. wind speed there are 60 miles a hour. about 4 inches of rain. in this area does not been any mandatory evacuation. it's just voluntary. we talked people on the beach, lot of vacationers, they said that they intend to wr...

Community. please, get vaccinated. we have plenty of vaccine available. >> straight from the doctor, dr. william schaffeener, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> well, delta airlines says it plans to hire more than 1,000 pilots by next summer because of the huge and really unexpected jump in demand for air travel. this follows yesterday's announcement from american airlines that it is cancelling hundreds of upcoming flights, partly due to shortage of staff. >> that's right. it's not just the airlines struggling to keep employees or fill open positions. i think this headline certainly sums it up. ...

Middle class job until they unionized and made it a good middle class job. lots of jobs might get created and the question about how much power workers have over their wages ends up being the determing one. >> you hit the nail on the head. where unions have been the massive force for better compensation and benefits but it's declined by 50% over the last number of years and as a result most americans are not benefitting from that collective bargaining power. if you put this foundation of $1,000 a month into workers hands it makes workers much, much harder to exploit and push around and this pl...

Different people with different skills in smaller numbers than the jobs being lost in communities around the country. >> but isn't that partly a question of labor bargaining power and redistribution? there was no reason that, for instance, making a car was a good middle class job until the uaw unionized and made it good middle class job. the question about how much power workers have over their wages ends up being really the determinative one. >> yeah, you hit the nail on the head. where unions have been this massive force for better compensation and benefits, when union membership has decline...