Health care news
Doctors wanted as private bias leaves Ontario communities without health care - Pat Daley
  Locals organizing community health centres but Harris govt. wants private group practices just like the docs' lobby.

"Defensive" medicine defends docs, not patients - Gordon Guyatt
  More on the difference between Canadian and US health care.
 
 

The Straight Goods Summit Web Page includes: News of and debates about the FTAA Summit and protests still being posted to Summit Features and Summit Letters.   - Protesters take on the Black Bloc - Mark MacKinnon   - Spontaneous collective action wows Sarah Polley - Tabassum Siddiqui   - "We're here to strengthen ties and bring it back to Parliament" - Alexa McDonough   - Dangerous change in police Summit tactics - Sam Boskey   - Raging Grannies save young protesters from police attack - Peggy Land   - Diary of a Protest, 48 hours on the frontlines - Tabassum Siddiqui     Part 1     Part 2   - Brutal police attacks on medics & peaceful protest - Sara Ahronheim   - It takes a movement to change the world - Mick Lowe   - Deconstructionists built catapult, rabble's Rebick raised the $$$ -   - (Un)Reasonable Search and Seizure in Québec City - Malcolm Rogge   - Civil Disobedience or Servile Obedience? - John Hollingsworth   - Akwesasne Crossing - Eric Mills And now, some levity: Channel-surfing can be scary   A post-Summit hangover inspires an animated vision from Jim Kempkes.

Consumer news
Farm crisis threatens consumers - Nettie Wiebe
  Canadian farmers reeling from high costs, low prices, corporate control.

Hog farm income declines while consumer prices mount - Darrin Qualman
  The effects of market power imbalance.
 

Just say "NO!" to tolls
  CAA against tolls on existing highways, says drivers already soaked.

Canada hosts int'l food labelling session
  UN body meets in Ottawa April 28 - May 4 to negotiate international food labelling standards.
 

Politics

$2 million in hidden donations flowed to Liberals - Aaron Freeman
  Loophole allows massive anonymous donations to political campaigns through riding associations.
 

Exit Helen MacDonald - Parker Barss Donham
  Departed Nova Scotia NDP leader not clear that politics is about winning.
 

Straight Goods Forum Western populism and racism Larry Solway says Stockwell Day is the latest shining example of a persistent plague - the not-so-subtle racism that still underlies much of western populism. What's the reality of racism in Canada today? Tell Straight Goods and see what others are saying... Then Take the Straight Goods poll: What's the reality of racism in Canada today?

Editorial:

Telling the hidden Summit stories - Ish Theilheimer, Publisher
 
 

Make me laugh:
True life Dilbert quotes

CANADIAN TRIVIA from the Trivia Guys
What city became the first centre of Canadian movie production in 1916?