Posted: January 08, 2002
Updated: January 10, 2002

Dave Barrett slices and dices "Maz" report on Alberta health care
  In a Straight Goods interview the former BC Premier-turned-medicare crusader warns Canadians about the latest attempt to Americanize Canadian health care.

Canada loses environmental champion - Suzanne Elston
  Dynamic anti-nuclear researcher Irene Kock, 40, leaves behind stunned community of neighbours and activists.
 
 

Corporate watch
The Global Financial System on the Brink, Again - Roy Culpeper, North-South Institute
  Argentina being blamed for a system that doesn't work.

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Bush's Enron ties- AlterNet
  The growing scandal involves millions of dollars in campaign contributions to Bush, U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm and other members of Congress.

The ten worst corporations of 2001 - Multinational Monitor
  In a year marked not only by the now-standard forms of corporate marauding but also by brazen wartime profiteering, it was no easy chore to identify Multinational Monitor's ten corporations of 2001.

Media files
Should media - or anyone - accept bin Laden video? - Barrie Zwicker
  Video of murky origins is open to considerable question, so why did so few reporters ask them?
 

Columnist quits over censorship - CBC News
  Halifax journalist and professor Stephen Kimber has quit writing his column for the Daily News citing editorial interference from the paper's owner, CanWest Global Communications.

Big Media gets bigger - The Nation
  The media cartel that keeps us fully entertained and permanently half-informed continues to grow.

CBC technicians' lockout ends
  Collective agreement, ratified by 75% of CEP members, confers wage gains but leaves contentious issues festering.

View from the other side - Arab News
  A rebuttal to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's attack on Saudi Arabia gives a good sense of what they don't like about us.

Seniors and Health Care
Ontario home care advocates silenced - Dr. Gordon Guyatt
  Government-appointed boards will replace elected advocates - despite an independent report said to a lack of resources, not management, is the key problem

When no money meant no care
  More excerpts from Life Before Medicare - Stories of the generation that fought for it.
 
 

Unpredictable homecare hazardous to seniors - CBC News
  Many Canadian seniors who rely on homecare are not getting the personal care they need, according to a new report from Corporation Watch.
 

Future of Afghanistan
Official Afghani civilian death toll exceeds number of September 11 - The Irish Times
  We'll never know the full count or long-term impact.

How the U.S. failed to heed signs of terror - Toronto Star
  Documenting the biggest security screw-up of all time.

Inviting future terrorism - Counterpunch
  Rising Afghani civilian deaths and US policy stubbornness may be encouraging further terrorist attacks.

Environment

What does true security mean? - Suzanne Elston
  The connection between global security and environmental reform.
 

Review of lindane due - The Western Producer
  The fate of the controversial insecticide could be determined within a couple of months.

Consumer power
Memories of modification
  Council of Canadians urges President's Choice boycott because it refuses GM and non-GM food labelling.

Extended warranty scam?
  Straight Goods reader asks for info about cut-and-run 'insurance' company.

Privacy and civil liberties
Gumshoes to get access to your computer? - David Corn, AlterNet
  The FBI is working on a way to gain remote access to all you type on your computer.