The ONLY people who don't get this are, unsurprisingly, the politicians. They do not, and most of them never have, exist in the real world that you and I have to deal with on a daily basis. Poverty, homelessness, unemployment, public schooling, these are all merely concepts for them, with numbers. They don't ever worry about them personally, because most of them are rich from other things and don't need the job or the pay anyway. I don't know, to be honest.
More voices submitting stories is a good first step.
More editors to approve them is another good step, to aleviate what David has to do directly, and allow him to concentrate more on the general direction his web site will take, and less on the specific content of the news stories. That being said, I'm about to submit a new story that I think is great news for Canada and the world. You can see the submission queue here . I'll be adding some of you as editors soon, I just have to sit down and find out how to do it. Yes, we really need more people to both submit and approve stories.