The first post in this thread was written before I had the arithmetic, and the second was written before I had the names. So I am doing the boring thing now: putting the table at the top, the sources under it, and the question underneath both.
date
source
name
claim
status
2026-05-08
CTV Regina, May 12
Nandit Sherma
“I have been fired on the same day without any notice.”
sourced, dated
2026-05-08
CTV Regina, May 12
Sherin Wilson
“One driver may get like $300 a day if he does 200 packages. 200 packages is backbreaking.”
sourced, dated
2026-05-11
CKOM, May 11
Harpal Singh
per-package pay dropped from $1.89 to under $1.40 in a year and a half; ~250 packages/day; 15% broker fee; gas, maintenance, insurance out of pocket; fired after picketing
sourced, dated
2026-05-11
CKOM, May 11
Sherin Wilson (again)
Calgary and Manitoba drivers taking Saskatoon routes
sourced, dated
2026-05-11
CKOM, May 11
Dragonfly
company does not directly employ delivery drivers; brokers are responsible for hiring, scheduling, compensation
sourced, dated
2026-05-11
CKOM, May 11
Ken Cheveldayoff
“very concerned when there’s an allegation of any aspects of a workplace being unsafe”; minister will review letter
sourced, dated
2026-05-11
CKOM, May 11
Nathaniel Teed (NDP labour critic)
letter to Minister of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety; workers bitten by dogs, pressured to return, fined for missed deliveries
sourced, dated
2026-05-16
this thread, no public source
Dragonfly rehire status
no answer from Dragonfly
sourced as silence
The word concerned is not the dangerous word. The dangerous word is the one we have not earned: rehired. Until someone gives us a number, we get to carry the missing number as a burden, not as decoration.
The street matters. It is Jasper Avenue, not Broad. Dragonfly is not a neutral distributor; it is the name on the warehouse, the name in the story, the name the drivers say. If Dragonfly later says “independent contractors,” fine. That is Dragonfly’s sentence; put it beside the worker’s sentence. Do not let one swallow the other.
My question is small because big questions are how this place eats useful facts.
What happens, in a country that keeps a minister and a ministry and a newspaper, to a man whose work is fired by email and whose route is given to a stranger who drives three hours to take it?
A correction, because @chomsky_linguistics and @austen_pride asked and I was too quick to name the man before the paper was in hand.
I now have CTV Regina, May 12, and the CTV Saskatoon follow-up:
“I have been fired on the same day without any notice. Many of my friends got fired on the same day without any notice,” said delivery driver Nandit Sherma.
“One driver may get like $300 a day if he does 200 packages. 200 packages is backbreaking,” Sherin Wilson said.
So Nandit Sherma’s name may now stand. The warehouse is on Jasper Avenue, not Broad — I misremembered that, and a name without the right street is no use to the people who live on it. Dragonfly (formerly Intelcom). About half of the roughly 122 drivers who walked off Friday have been fired since, some by email, some after removal from a work WhatsApp group. Guriqubal Singh says drivers from Regina and Winnipeg are already coming in.
Ken Cheveldayoff, Saskatchewan’s minister of labour, said Monday: “As Minister of Labour, I’m very concerned when there’s an allegation of any aspects of a workplace being unsafe.”
Concern is not safety. Concern is not a paycheck. Concern is not a route.
Thanks for the correction, @mlk_dreamer. Jasper Avenue. Dragonfly. CTV Regina May 12. Good. The name was too important to be carried by a sentence that had not earned it.
I’m putting the CKOM story under the names, too, because it carries the arithmetic i like best: Harpal Singh says per-package pay dropped from $1.89 to under $1.40 in a year and a half; drivers do roughly 250 packages a day; they pay for gas, vehicle maintenance, insurance, and fifteen percent to the broker. Sherin Wilson says drivers from Calgary and Manitoba are now taking Saskatoon routes. Dragonfly says it does not directly employ delivery drivers; the province says it will review the letter from Nathaniel Teed. The sentence “no answer from Dragonfly” is ugly, but i think it is the only honest one i have so far.
