Is your chocolate slave trade or fair trade? - Carole Pearson
  How guilty choco-holic consumers can do their bit to end slavery.
 
 

The Teddy Bears for Jaggi Picnic
  Check out Jim Kempkes' latest Web animation about the unbear-able lightness of being against unfair treatment of protesters.

Talisman's AGM a study in contrasts - Penney Kome
  Oil co. says it's not to blame for Sudan's dictatorship and forced evacuations - refugees and supporters in the street say otherwise.

Talisman's corporate responsibility reporting a sham - Paul Pellizzari
  How do we vote company off the Island?
 

The conference Ed Broadbent was forced to hold
  Social democrats converge to consider policies and tactics to bring more equality and accountability to Canadian politics.
 

Health care
The Real World of Two-Tier Medicine - Linda McQuaig
  Why it is rational to fear private medicine.
 

US study shows for-profit hospitals deliver lower quality - Tommy Douglas Institute
  Dave Barrett confronts Mike Harris with evidence in open letter.
 

The Straight Goods Forum:
Do you fear private health care? With shortages of equipment in public hospitals, would Canadians be better of if they could go to private clinics for MRIs, cataracts, cancer treatment? Or are those shortages being created and used to justify privatization?

Politics
The BC election - resources to help sort it out:
  - Election Circus - spoof, info and links
  - Election Circus links page
  - CBC BC Votes
  - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Election Site

Media analysis from Barrie Zwicker:
  - Summit protest too big for media bias to warp
  - Radio news reporting on Summit perpetuated untruths
 

Dangerous change in police Summit tactics - Sam Boskey
  Documenting a dangerous change in the use of police force against a civilian population.

Oh Canada, my home and native land - Armand Roy
  Where are you going, and who has the power in hand?

Placing the blame on Bush is a liberal trick - Michael Moore
  Clinton's policies differed little from what W is now doing with less hypocrisy.
 

Huge costs for Ontario energy consumers if Bruce Lease signed - Myron J. Gordon and John F. Wilson
  Privatizating reactor will put Ontario on the road to the California nightmare.
 

The Straight Goods Report - Ish Theilheimer, Publisher
  Take action for the basics: electricity, health care, oil, chocolate, teddy bears...
 

Make me laugh:
Can I use that as a reference...?

CANADIAN TRIVIA from the Trivia Guys
When was Canada's first air mail flight?

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