Usually when you don’t hear about a story, that’s because it’s not particularly relevant or important. But every now and then, there’s a story that’s such a dud — that no one remotely cares about — that it actually manages to circle back around and become relevant and important again. The very fact that no one cares about the story, in itself, is worth talking about.
Here’s one recent example of what I mean.
About a year ago, there was a massive strike in Canada’s federal public sector. It was one of the largest strikes in the country’s history. Roughly a third of Canada’s government bureaucracy — more than 150,000 employees — walked off the job, saying they deserved higher wages and the privilege of working from home.
The public-sector union in Canada expected that Trudeau’s government would immediately agree to their demands and end the strike. But that…
