Stock Day's Excellent Adventure in Letter Writing - Robert MacDermid
  We'll never know who really gave the Alliance $70,000, but we know a lot more now about money and politics. A special magazine-length documentary feature.
 

Foot in Mouth of Alliance Stock - a cartoon by Tim Beers
 

EXTRA:

Disgraced Alliance aide masterminded property rights lobby that influenced party policy - Aaron Freeman
 
 

Nova Scotia scores lowest in election fairness - Parker Barss Donham
  National study rates provinces.
 
 

Canada primarily responsible for softwood lumber dispute - Gary Gallon
  Forestry companies (mostly US-owned) should pay fairly - and reforest properly - in exchange for logging rights.
 
 

Reading "The Span" - Jim Kempkes animation
  A guide to interpreting signals from the U.S. fed chairman.
(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.)

Dot-com death plagues economy - K.K. Campbell
  14th century plague and 21st century plague move fast along trade routes.
 
 

Earning easy money in a kangaroo court - Linda McQuaig
  UPS uses NAFTA to challenge Canada over "subsidies" to competing couriers.
 

My friend, Richard Thomas, Green giant from Muskoka - Larry Solway
 
 
 

Straight Goods Forum Where has the charisma gone in politics? Is it time for us to find more charismatic leadership regardless of politics? Is the closest we have come to charisma the guy in the wet suit riding a personal watercraft? Tell Straight Goods and see what others are saying...

A Fete for the End of the End of History - Naomi Klein reports from the first annual World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. A link to The Nation.

Citizen journalism:
All banks are hell - Carolyn Forbes
  Technology dependence means customer service is out the window.

Front lines:
Privatized home care in Ontario - Ross Sutherland
  Going to a public home care program could save Ontario $247 million yearly.

Few Lessons Learned from California's Energy Debacle - Aaron Glantz, Corporate Watch
  Worldwide rush to privatization continues.

The Straight Goods Report - Ish Theilheimer, Publisher
 
 
 

Quebec City protest info:   Dummy's Guide to Quebec City Protest - Darryl Leroux   A Canadian activists' manual for getting involved in protesting the Summit of the Americas. FTAA FAQs from the Council of Canadians

The Straight Goods poll:
Who is the Canada's most charismatic currently-elected politician?
 
 

Make me laugh:
Why is e-mail like having a penis?

CANADIAN TRIVIA from the Trivia Guys
What's the Canadian connection with Superman?

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