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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. Canada's national parks threatened by climate change, new report says   A new Environment Canada and Parks Canada joint report warns that global warming may make the parks uninhabitable to the species and ecosystems they were designed to protect.   Who's violating your environmental rights? - Suzanne Elston   New website helps you find out local sources of danger.   Doing ecotourism right By Jack Christie   Ecotourism has become a buzzword for all nature-based activities. But many of them have negative environmental consequences. Not surprisingly, the term has lost much of its credibility within the tourism community. Media giants carve up public airwaves in giant privatization effort - Jeremy Rifkin   A strategy is beginning to unfold in Washington DC to give Big Media total control. Link to Manchester Guardian.   Air Rage Meter Jim Kempkes animation.   Suffering the pain of air travel... (You need Shockwave® software to view this cartoon and others in the Straight Goods cartoon gallery - it takes a few minutes to download, but it's not hard to install and it's absolutely free.) Copyright issues cast shadow over World Press Freedom Day By Robert Labossiere   With the huge growth of Internet publishing, journalists face a new threat to their ability to make a decent living. Cell phones industry finances civil war - Carole Pearson   UN asks consumers to help stop ecosystem destruction and social disaster with boycott of Congolese coltan ore. 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. Two political solitudes in Canada - men and women   Larry Haiven wants to join the other side.       Gambling on disability insurance By Barbara Novak   Your coverage will kick in if you're disabled - don't count on it! How Tommy Hilfiger sells "cool" to our kids By Stephen Leahy   Forget commercials. Jeans maker Tommy Hilfiger has discovered that image-conscious teens are most likely to pay big bucks for a pair of pants if their heroes all sport the Hilfiger logo. Household chemicals produce health horrors - protect yourself By Ron Chepesiuk   Synthetic chemicals known as "endocrine disruptors" are everywhere in our homes and lives. While scientists examine their suspected link to reproductive mutation, consumers can take steps to keep these chemicals at bay.

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Posted: August 08, 2001
Updated: August 14, 2001