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Summer at Straight Goods means featuring highlights from previous editions. We publish so much new stuff every week, no one we know gets to read it all. So relax and enjoy the best of Straight Goods from our amazing writers. Grocery slotting fees means consumers lose Shelf-Respect - Carole Pearson   Producers pay to get products on store shelves.   Canada moved too fast on GM foods - Stephen Leahy   Spin control doesn't change message of expert panel.   Rich and marginalized? Here's a tax cut By Linda McQuaig   Capital gains cut rewards wealthy for being great folk. You'll find it in Straight Goods Features.   Media Playing down poverty - Barrie Zwicker   Canadian newspapers failed litmus test in coverage of Stats Canada study of growing gap.   Vehicle "feebates" could help clean air   Dale Marshall of CCPA - BC argues that incentives to less-polluting vehicles can be part of a sensible plan to clean the air. Cuts, deregulation, and privatization put environment at risk   Karen Clark lists the top 10 damages the Common Sense Revolution has inflicted on environmental protection in Ontario. Health alternatives under the gun By Bruce Livesey   Is Ontario's College of Physicians and Surgeons persecuting alternative health practitioners? No Money ... No HIV/AIDS Drugs! - Lorne Nystrom   Canada must act to keep drug companies from holding Africans hostage with an epidemic.

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