The Straight Goods Summit Web Page includes:
  - When Bush Comes to Shove - Mel Watkins
  - New FTAA leak - Kyoto commitment dropped
  - Police harassment in Quebec - Paul Pellizzari
  - Free trade creating growing income gap in 15 countries
  - Where are the aboriginal people? - Mel Watkins
  - Results of NAFTA turn Quebec labour movement against trade deals
  - The first violence is institutional... José Bové
  - CLC's Nancy Riche moves Labour Forum to tears
  - Does trade create democracy?
  - Trade agreements need democracy clauses with teeth
  - EXTRA: See the leaked draft of the FTAA
  - Labour historian David Frank on Quebec City's anti-democratic history
  - Media critic Barrie Zwicker on Summit news coverage
  - Dr. Gordon Guyatt on health care implications of FTAA
  - FTAA and me - Penney Kome
  - Will trade lift poor out of poverty? - Derek McKee
  - From "Me" to "We" in a World of Freer Trade - Paul Pellizzari
  - Youth teach parents in protest movement - Darryl Leroux
  - NAFTA at Seven - Bruce Campbell, Jeff Faux, Carlos Salas
  - Imagine life with even more free trade - Jim Kempkes cartoon

Greener grass
Canadian kids are cheaper - Lanny Boutin
  Formal and informal comparisons of the cost of raising children on either side of the border.

Health care
"Canadians don't realize how lucky they are" - Dr. Gordon Guyatt
  Public funding, more family docs make Canadian health care system run better.
 

Browner grass
Suburban warriors - book review by Stephen Dale
  How the New American Right was born around the BBQ pit in SoCal.

Community
Low-cost "third way" housing finds no Canadian market - Margaret Dinsdale
  Former MP Riis among social entrepreneurs offering homelessness remedy.

Working
Halifax longshoremen defy random drug tests - Parker Barss Donham
  Time for humiliating, intrusive, inaccurate, unneccesary tests to stop.
 

Torstar's Chinese paper on strike, Star carriers lose theirs
  Sing Tao workers protest "sweatshop" - carriers' loss seen as a blow to immigrant workers.

Media convergence is monopoly by another name - Larry Solway
  Longing for the good old days of legislation against unfair competition.
 

Straight Goods Forum What do you think of media convergence? Are you getting "straight goods" from your news outlet? Tell Straight Goods and see what others are saying... Then Take the Straight Goods poll: Is Canadian media credible? Is globalization part of a larger picture of citizens losing control?

Politics
Broadbent-Morton social democracy conference
  Straight Goods to offer on-line forums and reporting.
 

Activism
Straight Goods welcomes rabble.ca
  Judy Rebick's new Web 'zine promises to stir up commoners.
 

The Straight Goods Report - Ish Theilheimer, Publisher
 
 

Make me laugh:
Haikus from Microsoft...

CANADIAN TRIVIA from the Trivia Guys
When did the National Film Board win its first Oscar?