How to end May's hunger - Parker Barss Donham
  Strike is part PR stagecraft, heartfelt desperation, and strategic miscalculation, but could help affected Sydney families.
 

Elizabeth May's personal hunger strike for Sydney Tar Ponds families
  Parliament Hill fast - with no exit strategy - for "Canada's Love Canal" victims.

Greens play spoiler role in BC election - Sarah Schmidt
  Disenchanted NDP voters could ensure BC Liberal sweep.
 

Consumer news

The guy who started that e-mail rumour about soaring gas prices - Pat Daley
  And the REAL story about what's barrelling down the road at motorists.
 

Cafeteria customers pressure Sodexho Marriot to drop private prison holdings - Ariel Troster
  North America's largest cafeteria corp also owns 10% of the world's largest private prison company.

Workplace
Canada-US workplace comparisons - Paul Weinberg
  Better worker protection in Canada, but no real raises, few new quality jobs since free trade.

Benefits of a strong minimum wage outweigh any costs - Todd Scarth
  US raised minimum wage without killing jobs, so can Canadians.

Straight Goods Forum Guy stuff is everywhere, and young males are getting suckered - Larry Solway   From talk radio to TNA beer ads to Harris politics, the New Age of the Guy is hard to avoid - or take - but it's great for marketers and right-wing politicians. Are you a whiner or a man? How does the Return of Guy Culture affect your life? See what others have written and state your views... Then Take the Straight Goods poll: Guy Culture

Tories get priorities wrong in budget - Hugh Mackenzie
  Ontario's new provincial budget is pure ideology. A link to rabble.ca - .

Health care

Spin-busting: Public, universal health care is sustainable - Dr. Gordon Guyatt
  Forget the fear-mongering. Per-person health care spending in Canada has not increased in a decade.
 
 

Corporate watch
Ottawa Bucks Free Trade - David Creighton, IndyMedia
  Sophisticated, relentless grassroots lobby gets megacity council to support resolution on trade agreements and their effects on municipal democracy. A link to IndyMedia.

Is everything for sale?
  Public intellectual Jean Bethke Elshtain critiques our dominant culture - a link to The Social Edge.com.

Big Pharma and the Global Response to HIV/AIDS - Robert Weissman
  Drug companies are jockeying for control over public spending on drugs for poor countries. Without public opposition, they'll get it. A link to Corporate Predators.

Teddies for Jaggi
  Pass this Jim Kempkes animation around to anti-globalization friends.
 

The Straight Goods Report - Ish Theilheimer, Publisher
  Gas pains, tar ponds and scam spam
 

Make me laugh:
Actual clippings from church newspapers - you'll fall out of your pew.

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