NEW! Straight Goods' Quebec Fair Trade Summit Web Page, featuring:
- Naomi Klein's new website
- Larry Solway and the Straight Goods Forum
- Updated Dummy's Guide for Protestors
- Forums and Diaries
... and to get you started:
- Quebec City Fashions - 2001
  You'll want your friends to see Jim Kempkes' latest animation.
(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.)

Corporation and the schools
Selling the Classroom to Save the School - Paul Pellizzari
  Schools face heavy pressure to commercialize everything they can.

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Consumers and health: Behind laser eye surgery hype Introducing a new Straight Goods columnist: Dr. Gordon Guyatt Laser surgery threatens public health care and many patients   Promo never mentions failure or complication rates. Laser surgery shows how private health care robs the public system   Easy money produces critical shortage of ophthalmologists.

Media
Playing down poverty - Barrie Zwicker
  Canadian newspapers failed litmus test in coverage of Stats Canada study of growing gap.

Made-for-TV Harris documentary squelched by networks - Mick Lowe
  Life Under Mike a victim of the times it documents.
 
 

Conrad Black's sinister agenda
  Canada's journalistic bully vilifies staff of his British papers for criticizing Israel. A link to The Independent.

Environment
Why isn't there more public uproar over DES? - Suzanne Elston
  Few in Canada are responding to alarms raised by Colborn over endocrine disruptors.

Frontlines:
Alberta union raiding controversy
  CUPE'S Darcy tells CAW's Hargrove to back off.

Rural residents and cottagers battle giant Swiss mining corporation over water exports, citizens' rights - Michael Cassidy

The Straight Goods Report - Ish Theilheimer, Publisher
 
 

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Make me laugh:
The power of a woman...

CANADIAN TRIVIA from the Trivia Guys
Who won the last Olympic gold medal in golf, and when?