Investing to meet human needs
By Robert Walker
  Socially responsibly investment may be able to save our economy from a wild, dangerous ride.
 
 
 

Unhappy Canadian meat inspectors raise consumer concerns
By Paul Weinberg
  Federal staff sound alarm about understaffing and self-regulation in meat inspection.
 

Media buys new hype from YNN, but story hasn't changed
By Barrie Zwicker
  Commercial classroom TV spins a new line to get Trojan horse in the schoolhouse door.
 

Federal Forestry Flakking
By Aaron Freeman
  Canada's diplomatic corps is fully involved in a worldwide PR war to defend Canada's forest industry and forestry practices.

That "junk" is gold
By Mick Lowe
  Insider advice from an auto wrecker.
 

Are you fed up with being snowed?
  The latest from Web animator 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.)

The cost of divorcing Party from Movement
By Mel Watkins
  Will the NDP learn what it lost and get it right this time?
 
 

East Coast consumer whines
By Parker Barss Donham
  Phone centres, automation, corporate mantras and bureaucratic stupidity bug Nova Scotian.
 
 

The Straight Goods Forum: Reasons to be cranky By Larry Solway. Everybody's got one - what's yours? What's your opinion? What bugs you? Bad drivers? Trendy expressions? Corporate greed? Gabby internet publications? Media commentators? Crank up and speak your mind! State your views and see what others have written... Then take the Straight Goods poll.

Electricity deregulation through GATS puts BC consumers at risk
By Marjorie Griffin Cohen
  Why Lock Chaos into Place?
 
 
 

This week's CANADIAN TRIVIA
What were the most popular names of babies in Canada in the 50s, 70s, and 90s?
From the Trivia Guys - www.triviaguys.com