A Regina city councillor is taking his own municipality to court. It is not quite a man-bites-dog story but neither is it something that happens every day. In 2018, Regina made a commitment to end homelessness. It sounded good back then, but apparently nothing much has happened to house the 488 individuals identified as experiencing homelessness in the city.

Ontario’s self-styled Government-for-the-people has announced new “prototype” projects to run social service employment programs. The government seems confident that lessons learned from the prototypes will shine a light forward for province–wide changes by 2022. But this is a much more complicated file than the recent “Open for Business Invisible-at-Night” car license plate roll-out.