The Straight Goods interview: Alison Smiley
  Canadian truckers - already pushed to fatigue's limits - will be ticking bombs if proposed Canadian trucking regs adopted - ergonomic expert.
 

Don't allow drug firms to intimidate - Dr. Gordon Guyatt
  Multinational drug companies are not playing fair.
 

Who is trying to breathe life into the Adams Mine plan, and why? - Charlie Angus
  The Hydra sprouts new heads.
 
 

CONSUMER NEWS
Telcos make big cash grab
  Basic residential rates could rise to $35-40/month if phone co's fish wish from CRTC. From PIAC.
 

Record profits + record-high phone rates = cash grab! - Parker Barrs Donham
  Atlantic phone customers should brace themselves - and complain.
 
 

Using Credit Cards Online, Are you Safe?
  A glimpse of the online world through the eyes of a cracker. A link to Linux.com.

Digital is not a dirty word - Jim Carroll
  But the world is in the midst of a serious hangover. A link to JimCarroll.com.
 

Lavender mosquito repellent beats Deet
  A hot tip from Straight Goods reader Sabina C. Becker of Cobourg, Ontario.

OPINION:
The Straight Goods Cyber Forum
"Does media get your goat like it does mine?"
  This week's Cyber Forum question from Larry Solway.

Fill out the Straight Goods Cyber Forum survey and enter the draw for Straight Goods gear.

TELL CONRAD, IZZY AND EVERYONE ELSE WHAT YOU THINK! ... and see what others have to say.
 

Good riddance to Canada's biggest loser - Ish Theilheimer
  Black's failure to buy an election and control the news gives new hope to us all.
 

Dear Conrad...
  Boyce Richardson's online paper goes on, while Conrad Black withdraws with heavy losses.

Playing God - Judy Rebick
  Genetic selection will pressure women to choose only highest quality embryo through IVF. A link to rabble.ca - .

WORKPLACE NEWS
Harris' Labour Day surprise
  Ontario sneaks in regs forcing employees to work 60-hour weeks, Sundays...

Is Labor Day Being Devalued? - Leo Gerard
  Free trade lost jobs and shattered lives for workers everywhere - threatened demise of North American steel a case in point.
 

Straight Goods Book Excerpt Of The Week
Stormy Weather - Guy Dauncey
  101 Solutions to Global Climate Change (New Society Publishers, July 2001). Solution Number 9: Invest in Solar Power.

See also
Movers and Shakers - hot solar investment prospects.
Who's Who in Socially Responsible Investment?.

The Future of the Left
Canada needs a Citizen's Party - Duncan Cameron
  A former president of the CCPA and former Canadian Forum editor lays out his vision of where Left politics needs to go in Canada.

Howard Hampton to NDP: Avoid navel gazing
  An exclusive Straight Goods interview.
 

Click here for more Future of the Left discussion.

LEVITY

Who stole the Wilno Chicken?
  Big chicken stolen, recovered, commemorated in ditty.
 

Humour: Kids' viewpoints

Posted: September 03, 2001