Minimum wage goes up.
Tim Hortons
sends a letter to employees,
cancelling paid breaks,
cutting health benefits.
Some say
that’s not the Canadian way.
I read the letter carefully.
It starts with
“It is with great regret”;
a different way of saying
“We are sorry”.
What’s more Canadian?
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, writes for Blacklock’s each and every Sunday)
