Canada's drug shortage
By Lanny Boutin
  This year's shortage of flu vaccine and other drugs is a sign of things to come.
 
 

Nuclear industry grasps at anti-global warming mantle
By Suzanne Elston
  Climate change spin the latest survival gambit of desperate nuclear industry.
 

Should cell phones be banned from cars?
  Web animator Jim Kempkes asks the hilarious question: What is acceptable while driving?
  (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.)

Analysis:
Albertans freeze in the dark
By Linda McQuaig
  A cold, expensive winter for oil province's residents, high profits for Big Oil, as NAFTA chickens come home to roost.
 

Analyze this: Why I reject our voting system and rejected my ballot
By Richard Shillington
  First-past-the-post and massive tax give-aways mean some Canadians have more equal say than others.

Don't despair - the Left lives
  Part One of a three-part series, Reflections on the Left by Mel Watkins.
 
 
 
 

RRSP time:
Invest in community instead of corporations
By David Skinner
  Community Mandated Investment lets Canadians put their money where their hearts are.
 

Greenpeace asks investors to check their mutual funds
Source: The Social Investment Organization
  How investors can put pressure on companies to change their ways.

The Straight Goods Forum: Sitting on a volcano Larry Solway says tax freeze politics are coming back to haunt Toronto and other Canadian cities. What's your opinion? What do you think? What's the impact of municipal tax cut politics where you live? State your views and see what others have written... Then take the Straight Goods poll.

This week's CANADIAN TRIVIA
Who was the "Voice of Doom?"
By the Trivia Guys - www.triviaguys.com