Posted: March 12, 2002
Updated: March 18, 2002

News
MDs revive chiropractic grudge match with sketchy studies and stats - Pat Daley
  Risk of treatment probably far less than risk of anti-inflammatory drugs or back surgery, but the bottom line is Patient Beware with ALL health professions.

Senior fire victim locked in Toronto mental hospital for being "homeless" - Margaret Dinsdale
  Poverty, health effects and homelessness rising among seniors - and Jim Flaherty would make them criminals.

Springmann's right - CIA responsible for letting in 9-11 terrorists from Saudi Arabia
  Another former US attaché in Saudi Arabia - Tim Hunter - confirms CIA role in admitting terrorists but blames incompetence and low-level corruption rather than conspiracy for later events.

Northern Exposure

INCO headed for $100M Voisey's Bay handout - while cutting back in ON and MB - Mick Lowe
  Are taxpayers dumb enough to subsidize Newfoundland mines at the expense of development back home?

The Straight Goods Cyber Survey and Speaker's Corner with Larry Solway Canada slow to embrace green technology   Even car companies are ahead of Canada in pollution consciousness. When it comes to pollution, is Canada a Mini or an SUV? Visit the Straight Goods Cyber Survey and Speakers' Corner and tell us what you think. Qualify for a prize in the weekly Straight Goods draw.

Seniors and Health Care ^**
National structure needed to make home care work - Colleen Fuller for the Canadian Health Coalition
  Instead of fighting with each other, federal and provincial governments should conduct a national audit to determine what is required to provide home health care services.

Seniors speak out for public Medicare
  The Ontario Coalition of Senior Citizens' Organizations adds its voice to the health care debate.
  ** A partnership with the Ontario Coalition of Senior Citizens Organizations - OCSCO

Debate on 9-11 and its aftermath E-conspiracy theories deserve to be debunked - TomPaine.com   The notion that the US government either detected the attacks but allowed them to occur, or, worse, conspired to kill thousands of Americans to launch a war-for-oil in Afghanistan is absurd, says David Corn. Key arguments not refuted by Corn - Michael Ruppert   Evidence appears to show that a former US intelligence officer jailed in Peterborough warned of attacks. The truth is out there? - Centre for Research on Globalisation   At first, it all seemed so obvious. It was those Islamic terrorists. Osama bin Laden. Mullah Omar. George W. Bush had nothing to do with it... did he? Was the American government forewarned about 9/11?   VisionTV airs an hour-long edition featuring a panel discussion on the events of September 11. On the trail of the anthrax killer - The Globe and Mail   After all the fuss about foreign terrorists, it looks like an inside job. What do YOU think happened on 9-11 and why? Last week more than 100 readers submitted a pretty wide range of views to our 9-11 Cyber Survey and Speakers' Corner, so we're keeping it going. Let us know what you think and speak your mind.

Health Care
Have your say in the health care debate
  The Romanow Health Care Commission is requesting the public's input into its work through an on-line survey.

Pan Am Clinic melds public and private health care - CBC News
  Manitoba's NDP government has been bucking the trend of other provinces: Winnipeg's private Pan Am Clinic has recently turned public.

Ethics and government

Perceiving the problem of political donations - Aaron Freeman
  The Enron scandal may get multinationals thinking twice about political donations.
 

SRI Reports * Study challenges SRI under-performance myth   A new report disputes the conventional wisdom that socially responsible investment under-performs conventional investment. The "End-Run Corporation" - T.W. Croft, Heartland Network   Is Enron's attack on the nation's economic security commercial sabotage? Key Canadian and US labour fund 'players' meet in Montreal   Conference marks growing clout and significance of Working Capital movement. Teachers' pension fund playing more activist role - Toronto Star   Fund manager is fighting mad about last year's Nortel-driven $1.7 billion investment loss. New growth for Manitoba's Crocus Fund   Now boasts $137 million invested in 60 companies and 9,644 jobs created.   * SRI Reports is a new regular Straight Goods feature offering news and information on SRI - Socially Responsible Investment - to help Canadians invest wisely and ethically.

Environment
Support of $11B ITER nuclear project premature - Suzanne Elston
  Nuclear safety commission says lack of information makes an informed decision impossible.

Nanoose seabed returned to BC
  Environmental groups have succeeded in overturning federal expropriation of the provincially owned seabed at Nanoose Bay.

Media files
Interview with Greg Palast - Guerilla News Network
  Corporate convergence has killed investigative journalism and allowed major scandals and corruption to go unreported, says the British reporter.

It's the book, Stupid
  Michael Moore thanks everyone who have made his new book, "Stupid White Men", a bestseller.
 

CanWest condemned for latest censorship incident - The Newspaper Guild of Canada/CWA

Ottawa Citizen kills 65 jobs
  Ten percent of Ottawa Citizen staff to lose jobs to Winnipeggers in an effort to "serve readers better".

Consumer news
Consumers' Association of Canada and GM labelling - CBC Marketplace
  A dispute over labeling genetically modified food has split the Consumers' Association of Canada and raised questions about its independence.

Making losers of auction winners - New York Times
  Perpetrators of online auction fraud are becoming more technologically and financially sophisticated.

Ottawa stops purchasing toxic wood
  Director doesn't expect Ottawa to remove existing play structures.
 
 

U.S. court blocks DEA hemp rule
  Hemp food and products are back on the market, thanks to a recent Court of Appeals ruling.