HEALTH NEWS:
Patients without doctors
  Sure, every Canadian should have 24-hour access to a trusted medical practitioner. But what if you can't get one? Dr. Rosana Pellizzari says the real problem is political.

U of T faces lawsuit over withdrawn job offer - Phillip Fine
  Researcher lost job offer after publicly linking Prozac and suicide.
 

A Straight Goods book excerpt, from The Last Amigo - Karlheinz Schreiber and the Anatomy of a Scandal, by Stevie Cameron and Harvey Cashore.
 

The Straight Goods Cyber Forum with Larry Solway
What to do about the new wave of layoffs?
  Larry says the great doom and gloom is just stupid management. We need a lot more imagination than just bailouts, which never work. What about a work-sharing pool? What about...? What are your thoughts?

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ANALYZE THIS: School user fees hurt poor kids - Richard Shillington
  Instead of helping children overcome their disadvantage, user-fees make education an instrument of social exclusion.
 

THE ATTACK AND AFTER
Against Rationalization - Christopher Hitchens
  As an unapologetic defender of the Muslims of Bosnia, one can and must say to the apologists that bin Ladenism poisons everything that it touches. A link to The Nation.

Most pressing issue still Third World poverty
  Linda McQuaig says an all-consuming war against terrorism is dangerous and exactly what the terrorists want.
 

Air safety professionals talk security
  Revealing excerpts from an on-line discussion group about security measures and how public to be in disucssing them.

The Grievous News - a poem by Mel Watkins
 
 

Looming humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan:
  Could be the century's first genocide - economist Rod Hill.
 
 

Will we remember the lessons of Nuremberg? - Parker Barrs Donham
  After WWII, perpetrators of Nazi atrocities were punished by law, and the victors helped to rebuild war-wrecked Germany - A model for acting against this century's atrocity?

Bomb them with butter
  A message being passed around the Internet calling for a new spirit of generosity to defuse world tension.
 

Who is Truly Anti-American? - Barrie Zwicker
  Real Americans don't fall in line behind leaders in times of turmoil. Real Americans dissent.
 

Virus disguised as anti-war petition
  'Vote' worm snares unsuspecting Web peaceniks.

INTERNATIONAL
'Poor Man's Computer' to Help Basic Education in India
  Cheap hand-held, developed in Bangalore, to bring basic education to tribal children in central India. A link to IPS.

FUTURE OF THE LEFT: Jaded ex-Saskatchewan MLA co-chairs NDP renewal process
  "I know how world turns, but at same time I wanted us to be different" - Carole Teichrob
 

CONSUMERS
Carpet industry fights allergy image
  The carpet industry says it's all myths that carpet causes allergies and poor indoor air quality. But several sources say dust and allergen control is impossible with broadloom. A link to 50plus.com.
 

Leaky condo owners march on Ottawa to lobby feds for compensation
  Demanding justice in the case of the largest White Collar crime ever recorded in Canadian history". A link to MyCanadianNews.com.

WORKPLACE

BC Libs & Labour:
  Heading For A Showdown? A link to BCPolitics.ca.
 
 

Starbux Wants Double-Tall Non-Union Roasting Plant
  Union organizers hassled and harassed, according to IndyMedia post.
 

DRUG RECALLS:
  Common ingredient in off-the-shelf cold and diet products risks strokes for women
  Triaminic recalls children's cold meds
 

CANADIAN LIFE: 1.3 million Cdn residents moved last year
  Stats Can says four percent of population moved in 2000-2001.

HUMOUR: Canada Gears Up For War
  These pix have been making the rounds on the Internet.
 

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Posted: October 01, 2001