Posted: January 29, 2002

Public not told about Advisory Council links to private health - especially Mazankowski's own links to insurance and lobbying industries - Penney Kome
  'Maz Report' helped soften turf for attack on medicare.
 

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Klein finds health care's weak link - Thomas Walkom, Toronto Star

Media Files
Barrie Zwicker wants to know:
  - What really happened on Sept. 11th? - Part 2. Too many loose ends call for the toughest kind of media questions but they're not being asked... yet.

Corporate watch
Argentina-U.S. integration a lesson for the loonie - Linda McQuaig
  Call for debate comes even as leaders and CEOs push Canada in the direction of U.S. integration.
 

Saving the Canuck buck - Lorne Nystrom
  What is driving our dollar down? Some bank economists and businesses predict the end of the Canadian dollar, but how about rebuilding its value?

Wal-Mart world's biggest firm - The Globe and Mail
  Wal-Mart has knocked off Exxon Mobil to become the world's biggest company.
 

Afghanistan
Kandahar's forgotten - Washington Post
  The plight of Afghanistan's urban poor often goes unnoticed.

America's chaotic road to war - Washington Post

Education under fire
Tuition deregulation plan forced on protesting students - insight on last week's occupation and reasons for it, from Queen's University student Kathryn Elmer

Community, Rights & Change

Ontario disability benefits process punishes applicants - Reuel S. Amdur
 
 

Letter of the week
Israel needs tourists to support dream of peace - James Allman
  A January visit to the Holy Land offers a vision of hope - and now's a great time to go.

Seniors and Health Care*
US home care corporations access public health dollars - Colleen Fuller and the Canadian Health Coalition
  Health care crisis creates "high growth area" for home care investors in Ontario. An excerpt from HOME CARE: what we have what we need.
  * A partnership of Straight Goods and the Ontario Coalition of Senior Citizens Organizations.

Ethics and government

Show us the campaign money - Aaron Freeman
  Canada's election law makes disclosure of political donations essentially optional.
 

Whose side is ethics counsellor on?
  Democracy Watch raises questions about Howard Wilson's speech at "access government" conference.

BC through the wormhole
Welfare cuts coming to B.C. - Steve Kerstetter
  Planned changes make a mockery of Liberal election promises.

Activist remembered
Ken Bryden - Eleanor O'Connor
  The east end of Toronto lost one of its most active, outspoken and tireless citizens when Ken Bryden died on December 16, 2001.

Environment

Smart commuting - Suzanne Elston
  Cut costs and enjoy your commute.
 
 

Criticism of Kirkland Lake waste incinerator silenced
  A public meeting to discuss a proposed hazardous waste incinerator was shut down by officials to stop a critic of the plan from speaking.

Humour
The praying man and the journalist