Young man's death illustrates Canadian home support crisis
  By Nancy Pollak
  Across Canada, people with intensive care needs are being dropped into the under-funded community's lap, creating a home care crisis.

"Economy class syndrome" could be widespread killer
  By Lanny Boutin
  Will the threat of a multi-million dollar lawsuit convince the airlines to change?

Plutonium-burning goes through spin cycle
  Darren Stewart writes that a new "neutral" report by a physicists group is being spun by the nuclear industry to support burning Russian plutonium in Canadian reactors.

Still rooted in Sudbury
  Correspondent Mick Lowe interviews Sudbury's Leo Gerard, who takes the international reins of the United Steelworkers in March.
 
 

Stockwell Day cries a river of 792,064 sweat-stained loonies
  The latest animation from Jim Kempkes...
  (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.)

Opinion:
Closed shop gives doc the hammer in New Brunswick strike
  Linda McQuaig says the apparently immutable laws of globalization seem to have left the medical profession unscathed.

Alexa should not resign
  Veteran activist Gerald Caplan writes that the NDP has more important work to do than leadership race hoopla - like deciding whether there will be a party worth leading.

Publisher's welcome:
Happy Birthday, Straight Goods - From gold rush to dot poverty
  By Ish Theilheimer
 
 
 

The Straight Goods Forum: Government - the last and best hope for people Sure, it goes against trendy conventional wisdom, but Larry Solway writes that only public intervention can smooth out the rough spots in the economic cycle. What's your opinion? What do you think? Will it take a major recession and Walkerton-style disasters to make people look to government for solutions again? Or is that just fuzzy leftist cant? State your views and see what others have written... Then take the Straight Goods poll.

Straight Goods is pleased to announce the return of Canadian Trivia
This week's question (drumroll): Who are Canada's patron saints and how many do we have have?