Exclusive this week at Straight Goods:
Day's Alberta record makes mockery of "democratic" image
By Gillian Steward
The former managing editor of the Calgary Herald looks at Day's actual record and how it contradicts his current image as born-again democracy fighter.
The cost of access
By Parliament Hill correspondent Mark Bourrie
What do journalists give up in order to get front door treatment by pols and their handlers?
This week's Straight Goods forum with Larry Solway:
Canadians lying? Why love health care and vote for tax cuts?
Why do Canadians say health care is the most important issue when most of them intend to vote for politicians who have either cut health care spending or plan to do so? This week's Straight Goods forum with Larry Solway basically says Canadians are jiving when they say health care is their top concern.
Former BC premier Dave Barrett isn't so cynical despite his years of battle and thinks things will swing back for the left.
National Post columnist Roy MacGregor is reporting on the Day campaign bus. He thinks there's something shaking that media and political hacks haven't sense yet. And Straight Goods' consulting editor Stephen Dale thinks democracy could be a populist ace in the hole for the Alliance - despite the contradictions noted by Gillian Steward in this week's Straight Goods exclusive.
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New animation:
Count Chretien, Saviour of Medicare...
Sometimes you have to take some drastic measures to save the patient.
(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.)
Skills Mania: Snake Oil in Our Schools?
By Bob Davis
Push for skills doesn't even come through with the jobs it promises.
Beat bike theft
By Straight Goods' outdoors columnist Jack Christie
The best protection may be to make your bike look like a beater.
Who won the great debate?
by Ish Theilheimer
Welcome and election commentary from downtown Killaloe
And Straight Goods features:
Top 10 reasons why Canada's a great place for millionaires
By Jim Stanford
Federal party comparisons on:
health care,
transportation (Transport 2000),
women (Judy Rebick),
environment (Sierra Club), and
broadcast policy (Friends of Canadian Broadcasting).
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Posted: November 13, 2000
