Posted: June 11, 2002
Updated: June 12, 2002

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Recession-weary Japanese pay for corrupt and commercial World Cup - Christopher Johnson
  With a decision on Vancouver's bid for the 2010 winter Olympics expected in July, the current World Cup soccer tournament provides a lesson in how the locals wind up paying for the sporting world's glory. A Straight Goods exclusive from Chris Johnson in Tokyo.

Consumers
Marketers spread phony 'going out of business' scams - Eve Lazarus
  Consultants teach furniture stores techniques of bogus sales and subsequent price hikes.
 

Health Care

The perils of using drugs to normalize children - Lanny Boutin
  Symptoms of attention deficit disorder misunderstood.
 
 

Why women should be wary of direct-to-consumer drug advertising - Sari Tudiver
  Ads downplay risks, exaggerate benefits and will not admit that a competing product or alternative, non-drug therapies are superior.

Midwifery remains a safe alternative - Scott Piatkowski
 
 
 

Killing off community development in Nova Scotia - Silver Donald Cameron
  Homegrown development project get astonishing results yet goes underfunded.
 

Martin caved to senior bureaucrats and idealogues - Linda McQuaig
  Finance minister ignored evidence, advice and his own guts in opting to kill deficit at the poor's expense.

Commentary

Does Martin matter? - By Mel Watkins
  The notion that not having Paul Martin's hand on the tiller will be a loss for us ordinary folk is surely a stretch.
 
 

The Straight Goods Cyber Survey and Speaker's Corner So much for the deficit slayer - Larry Solway   Bay Street hasn't turned a hair over the 'Saint's' departure because they knew he was just a point man. What do you think? Are you losing sleep over losing Paul? Visit the Straight Goods Cyber Survey and Speakers' Corner, comment on Canada's political leadership steeplechase and qualify for a prize in the weekly draw.

From the Publisher

Alexa McDonough raises resignation to new strategic level - Ish Theilheimer
  NDP has interesting choices for a change.
 

Northern Exposure
Hybrid Hondas ready for the mainstream - By Mick Lowe
  Mick Lowe may have been the first person to drive a hybrid car around Sudbury, but he won't be the last.

Community, Rights and Change

Story of a gay marriage - Reviewed by Reuel S. Amdur
  Keven Bourassa and Joe Varnell tell the story of their historic and contentious union in Just Married.
 

Media files
Media equipment and vehicles vandalized at last year's FTAA protests - By Chris Vedelago
  Did protestors, equating corporate media with the corporate agenda, attecked the one because they couldn't attack the other?

Hot headlines
Production cost lower in organic farming - Common Dreams
  Organic farms viable despite lower yields, study finds.

Strict limits on welfare benefits discourage marriage, studies say - New York Times

Chinese experience shows adverse environmental impacts of GE cotton - Greenpeace

The Kris Kringle Economy - Corporate Knight
  As the public's ethical expectations of corporations continue to rise, big business may have to change its strategy.

Manitoba law changes address reverse mortages - CBC News
  Reverse mortgages are the latest trend for aging homeowners, so Manitoba's provincial government has announced new protection for consumers entering into them.

Peril in the garden - Canada.com
  West Vancouver residents, alarmed at the use of pesticides to keep lawns green, are aiming for a safer environment.

Do pesticides cause cancer in children? - Enviro Health Policy

Busting welfare - NOW Toronto
  Sandy Falkiner-Budgell took the Tories' spouse-in-the-house law to court - and won.

Under the nuclear cloud - Arundhati Roy, AlterNet
  People on both sides of the Indo-Pak border live on hairtrigger alert as their leaders callously play a radioactive game of chicken.