Posted: February 19, 2002
Canadian and Swedish freelancers escape Philippines kidnap attempt - Christopher Johnson
Correspondent who broke the story about Afghan warlords misdirecting US hits offers first-person account of Abu Sayyaf guerrillas who make hostage-taking a growth industry and occupational hazard for journos and other foreigners
"What Really Happened on Sept. 11th?" - Part 5
Barrie Zwicker's latest installment in his series examining contradictions and anomalies surrounding the terrorist attack. What did George Bush know and when did he know it? - popularly known as "The Great Deception".
Seniors and Health Care* - The threat to public pensions - Part One - Monica Townson
Misinformation about seniors is being used in the debate about public pensions in Canada - is there really risk that retiring boomers will bankrupt the system?
* A partnership with the Ontario Coalition of Senior Citizens Organizations
9 of 10 US Nursing Homes Lack Adequate Staff - NY Times
More than 90 percent of American nursing homes have too few workers to take proper care of patients, a new federal study has found.
From shredder to bestseller - suppressed book sells 50,00 before it hits the shelves
Michael Moore takes heart from the support for his nearly-pulped look at American politics.
Consumers
SQUINT - 21st century people, institutions and things
SPAM and the end of privacy - Sharon Airhart
SPAM and junk mail would have shocked Victorian Evangelist Hannah More, who sharply divided public and private life. That's changing - how do we protect our privacy?
U.S. authorities attack e-mail spam - CBC News
Federal regulators in the United States have launched a crackdown on unsolicited e-mails.
Rollover ratings, green cars and doctor-drug teams
CBC News rates cars for rollover capacity and environmental friendliness, and doctors get exposed for their connections with pharmaceutical companies.
Environment
Down to Earth - Solutions to the short-daylight blues- Suzanne Elston
Don't wait for the warm weather to chase your SAD blues away.
EPA announces phase out of arsenic treated wood - Environment News Service
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with the construction industry to reduce the use of pressure treated wood.
Safeguard species at risk, Canadians urge Chretien - Environment News Service
Carrying petitions signed by nearly 60,000, conservationists urged Prime Minister Jean Chretien to ensure that a strengthened version of the Species at Risk Act is quickly passed.
New study says sport fishing near collapse - CBC News
Warning for Canadian sport fishers: a new study suggests that in much of the country anglers are fishing the resource to virtual collapse.
Communities, rights and change
Social emergency? Dial 211 - Reuel S. Amdur
Toronto will be first off the mark this spring, with a full 211 service. Others are following.
Commentary
Mazankowski report contradictory, not revolutionary - Dr. Gordon Guyatt
The report failed to deliver the rallying cry to privatization that the media, and Ralph Klein, were apparently expecting.
Bono bloody Bono - Dave Bleakney
Bono should forget sound bites for globalization and stick with tape loops.
BC's "structural deficit" a manufactured crisis - Seth Klein, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
There is nothing inevitable about the BC government's reckless spending cuts.
Lappé's vision of a new political economy
Listen to the author of Diet For a Small Planet talk of hope and food.
Labour vs. labour
Britain's revived Labour spoiling for a fight - New York Times
A resurgent Labour movement is confronting the government of Tony Blair with the biggest threat of widespread industrial action in two decades.
Media files
Is media concentration a crisis?
A special report and vibrant new chart from MediaChannel demonstrates how a handful of multinational corporations controls nearly everything we see and hear on the screen, over the airwaves and in print.
Corporate Watch
Resisting the assassin's power - Russel Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
What exactly does the movement for global justice want?
The DNA myth in genetic engineering exposed - Common Dreams
Scientific fallacy exploited by the GE industry may explain the profound failures of biotechnology.
Take action
Consumers demand Fair Trade from Starbucks - E-wire
Protests in 300 cities to coincide with Starbucks' February 26 shareholders' meeting.
Vancouver vigils for peace and justice - Working TV
Vancouver peace activists have been holding vigils in opposition to the war in Afghanistan every Saturday since September 17.
Humour
Did you say shred those docs? - A case of bad cellular.
You Were An Accident and other kid's books that didn't make the cut.
Government could turn Enron around