This week's Straight Goods forum with Larry Solway is on the burning garbage debate. Larry feels he's a good environmentalist but thinks there's a good case for state-of-the-art incineration to get rid of urban waste and generate power. Incineration engineer John Chandler agrees and supplies technical facts and arguments. Toronto mayoral candidate Tooker Gomberg thinks it's a bad idea. So does Colleen Cooney, a concerned citizen from Orillia, Ont., where an incinerator was proposed. And former Ontario environment minister Ruth Grier says incinerators cause many problems and are just as hard to site as landfills and warns that Adams mine isn't dead yet.

For a journalistic account of how experts themselves differ on safety of garbage incineration plants, you might want to check out an article that ran in the UK last summer in The Independent: www.eastnorthumberland.com/...

Then it's your turn: Is incineration an unacceptable health risk? Is technology on top of this problem? Should Canada follow the lead of Europe and embrace the new technology? Can big cities handle composting? Stir it up! And see how others have responded! We want to hear from you - for, against or on the fence.

Also this week

Massive Liability
By Charlie Angus
  Why did the Adams mine get as far as it did?
 
 

New animation: Gore vs. Bush, Bore vs. Gush...
  What's an American voter to think?
  (You need Shockwave^® software to view this cartoon and others in the Straight Goods cartoon gallery - it takes a few minutes to download, but it's not hard to install and it's absolutely free.)

Rich and marginalized? Here's a tax cut
By Linda McQuaig
  Capital gains cut rewards wealthy for being great folk. You'll find it in Straight Goods Features.
 
 

Putting a lid on special interest political ads
By Aaron Freeman
  Without third-party election spending limits, democracy is up for sale.
 
 
 

PARALEGAL DIARY: Telemarketing fraud - and how victims can recoup some losses
By Bob Salvador

No goodies for stressed-out family caregivers
By Donna Vogel, CCPA
  Lack of national home care program causes serious problems for patients, family members, care providers and the health system. Another Straight Goods Feature.

Time To Debate Social Canada. The key question we should be debating is to what extent the surplus will be used to finance new initiatives and support the provinces in these areas. See Straight Goods Features.

How do federal parties line up on environmental policy? Gary Gallon's environmental e-mail bulletin issued a special on Canada's election platforms on the environment last week. For excerpts, see Take Action.

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