Posted: May 28, 2002

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Argentinian Scotiabank employees hung out to dry
  In the middle of an economic crisis, hundreds of bank workers are being let go without severance pay, unemployment insurance, or hopes of finding a new job.

Media Files
How to make TV work as a tool for social change - Tom O'Brien, Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions
  Unions succeed with political strategy based on TV marketing to build public support and pressure politicians.

Turn the page on publishing - James Laxer
  Devastated by monopolistic practices, Canada's book publishers deserve Ottawa's help.
 

Vindication in sight for 9/11 skeptics? - Barrie Zwicker
  New revelations and CIA-FBI feud offer cracks in dam of the Official Big Lie.
 

The Straight Goods Cyber Survey and Speaker's Corner with Larry Solway John Maynard Keynes has left the building   Tax cuts, social housing, and tired old thinking. Visit the Straight Goods Cyber Survey and Speakers' Corner on the theme Roll over, Keynes and tell us what you think. Qualify for a prize in the weekly Straight Goods draw.

Darkness follows Day - by Ken Georgetti
  Stephen Harper's recent history as the president of the National Citizens' Coalition offers a clear look at what he really believes.
 

Northern Exposure: Smart Growth, Dumb Shrinkage - Mick Lowe
  The government that caused the population of Northern Ontario to shrink is now in charge of making it grow.

"I'm really not sure quite how to put this - I like Jean Chrétien."
Psst! This lefty likes Chrétien - Mick Lowe
 

SRI Reports^*
Four ideas for reforming corporate governance after Enron - Business Ethics
  While most proposals for reform today merely tinker at the margins, some get to the heart of the matter.
  * A regular Straight Goods feature on Socially Responsible Investment.

Excerpts from The Global Activist's Manual: Local Ways to Change the World, eds: Mike Prokosch and Laura Raymond -
The struggle against globalization transformed - Naomi Klein
  Corporations have created our coalitions for us.
The new sensibility of activism - Andrew Boyd

Community, Rights and Change
Nova Scotia CAS workers punished for protesting staff cuts - Reuel S. Amdur

Nova Scotia's social caseworkers overburdened - Reuel S. Amdur
  Report finds workers suffer from "caseload overload".
 
 

Environment
More on the next generation of lawn care
  A response to readers who wrote to express concerns about alternatives to pesticide use. As Suzanne Elston explains, not all "IPMs" are created equal.

Canada's own Earth Summit - Suzanne Elston
  Speakers like Vandana Shiva and Elizabeth May will be in Kingston, Ontario June 5, the day of the UN Earth Summit, being held this year in Shenzhen City, China.

Cost of reopening nuclear plant soars - The Globe and Mail
  Ontario Power Generation says the cost of reopening its Pickering A nuclear station has risen to about $2-billion.

Grit Senator attacks Liberals' nuclear bill, calls it 'very biased' - Hill Times
  $550-million agency would not be subject to the Access to Information Act.

Weedkiller targeted by city poses risk - Ottawa Citizen
  2,4-D found in semen and urine of farmers.

Stop the dirty dancing - David Boyd, Globe and Mail
  Canada's pollution-fighting record stinks.

What Happened?
Bush: dumb by choice - Rick Salutin, Globe and Mail

Little secrets - AlterNet
  The President knew last August terrorists hijack an airliner. What else did he know?

Don't just peddle panicky warnings - Wesley Wark, Globe and Mail

Riddle of the anthrax spores - George Monbiot, CounterPunch
  Why has the FBI investigation into the anthrax attacks stalled?

America the fearful - James Carroll, Boston Globe

Ethics and government
Democracy Watch calls for strong ethics rules for all parliamentarians

Hot headlines

Rubber bullets unsafe - study - Toronto Star
 

New Canada-US agreement will refuse entry to thousands of refugees - CBC News

The 'Talibanization' of Bangladesh - The Nation
  Religious fundamentalists are terrorizing the people of Bangladesh.

NDP rookie steals spotlight from Harper - Globe and Mail

Our future's on the line - Buzz Hargrove, The Globe and Mail
  Canada needs new economic carrots and sticks to get corporations to manufacture here.

Internet tools
The Internet Archive
  A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form, as they were when they were originally posted.
 

Consumers

Starbucks to offer fair trade coffee at Canadian outlets - CBC News
 

Transaction fees set to rise with 'white label' cash machines - CBC News

Heavy metal harm - AlterNet
  Mercury is toxic and it occurs everywhere. The movement to get it out of the atmosphere has taken on new urgency.

Consumers fight 'grey market' satellite ruling - CBC News
  Owners of "grey market" satellite dishes say they're willing to fight for their right to own them.

Don't trust blood pressure devices - 50 Plus
  Commercial units often inaccurate.
 

Canadians 'robbed' as drug patent probe stalls - Ottawa Citizen
  Canada's competition watchdog is dragging his feet on complaints about alleged abuses of the drug patent laws and patients are paying.

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Humour
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