Permanent holding pattern for Canadian air travellers
  Michael Janigan writes that despite its privatized, monopoly status, Air Canada fails to deliver for air travellers.
 

The Straight Goods Forum: Privatization spin and reality don't add up Larry Solway says selling off public services is trendy, but we're all paying as consumers, taxpayers and citizens for getting on the wave. What's your opinion? Has widespread privatization done any good at all? What's coming next? Can we put the toothpaste back in the tube, and should we even try? State your views and see what others have written... Then take the Straight Goods poll.

Pragmatist or stooge? Ontario union head turns privatization choirboy
  Paul Weinberg follows the conversion of John Murphy from labour boss to government insider and promoter of Ontario Hydro sell-off.

Cuts, deregulation, and privatization put environment at risk
  Karen Clark lists the top 10 damages the Common Sense Revolution has inflicted on environmental protection in Ontario.

Everything's cheap at Crazy Mike's Surplus Government Store
  Jim Kempkes' animated vision of a privatized world where everything you need is always on sale.
  (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.)

Sudbury at the centre of Steelworker union power shuffle
  Mick Lowe reports on a union leadership race with important political ramifications.
 

But it's our money!
  Krystyn Tully describes the weapons she learned that she could use to fight back as a bank customer.
 

Unhealthy Times
  Dennis Raphael says the current trend toward tax cuts and privatization provides a primer on How to Make a Healthy Society Sick.

When will Canada stop trade with Burma?
  Penny Sanger writes that imports of Burma-made textiles and garments to Canada have more than doubled since Canada imposed "sanctions" on the killer regime.

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Kicking us in the privates
  Ish Theilheimer says read the fine print before embracing privatization holus-bolus.