Posted: July 31, 2002
Updated: August 20, 2002

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Federal surpluses - but no new social spending - predicted for next 20 years - Linda McQuaig
  Canada was quick to emulate New Zealand when it cut deficits but that's not so likely now that the Kiwis are re-investing in social programs.

The Judge, the Dene, the Pipeline and the Premier - Mel Watkins
  25 years later, still no pipeline but other than that, the landscape in the former Territories has changed completely.

Straight Goods to host Acoustic JamFest on Golden Lake Weekend workshop to bring players and singers together with folk circuit leaders in lakeside paradise. Click here to sign up

Open letter to his holiness on World Youth Day 2002 - Evalyn Parry
 

The Straight Goods Cyber Survey and Speakers Corner Enough Pope already!   Larry Solway is poped out. How about you. Tell the Straight Goods Cyber Survey and Speakers' Corner your opinion on religion and win a prize... or a punch in the nose.

SRI Reports*
Shortcomings in new corporate governance rules from NYSE
  Social Investment Organization calls for mandatory social and environmental reporting by corporations.
  * A regular Straight Goods feature on Socially Responsible Investment

Health Care

Developing healthy prescribing habits in young doctors - Dr. Gordon Guyatt
 
 

Education
Labour, work and politics in the Ontario elementary school classroom - From reader D. Singer

Hot headlines
U.S. plan to attack Iraq defies international law - David Morgan, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms
  International community must speak now to stop Bush's planned war of aggression.

Nigerian women continue weeks-long Chevron occupation
  The voices of the women protesting at Chevron's Abiteye Flow Station.

From the Publisher:


Stop the madness - we ALL need a break - Ish Theilheimer
  Summer ironies to contemplate.
 
 
 

Media Files
George W. speaks - Real - and recent - quotes from the World's Most Powerful Man

The P.U.-Litzer Prizes - Normon Solomon
  Find out who gets what when the media competes for lowest journalist integrity.

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.

Unspinning Afghanistan
The biggest bombshell of the war...
  ... could be what former former US diplomatic staffer Michael Springman is saying about CIA links with the terrorist attacks on September 11.

Secrets of the Afghani refugee camps - a Straight Goods exclusive from Peshawar, Pakistan by Ken Hechtman
  A visit to border camps explodes myths and Western wishful thinking.

Ken Hechtman, Citizen Journalist - Ish Theilheimer
  Democracies need independent information sources, especially during times of crisis.
 
 

Consumers
Consumers beware: Before you spring for that extended warranty...
  Lanny Boutin checked it out and finds most aren't worth it because most appliances make it through the first five years.
 

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

Environment and health

Summertime protection from UV radiation - Suzanne Elston
  Headlines about ozone depletion are gone but danger remains.
 

Poison-treated lumber - Deborah Barrie
  The health hazards of pressure treated wood.
 
 

Oil pollutants from planes, recreational boats and runoff do as much damage to oceans as massive oil spills - AlterNet

Saskatchewan organic farmers make history - Don Kossick
  Farmers file class action lawsuit against Monsanto, Aventis.
 
 

Labour
Sudbury showdown threatens all labour unions
  Mick Lowe's report from September, 2001 tells why the 5-month strike at Falconbridge near Sudbury is the most important strike in Canada at the time had never heard of.

Eye-witness journalism lands Lowe in pokey
  Mick Lowe goes to jail for big quote from private security forces in Falconbridge Strike.
 

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 - OCSCO

Bronfmans untaxed - Linda McQuaig
  Wealthy Canadian family jumps through multi-million dollar tax loophole.

Humour
How to keep a happy level of insanity
  Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks, then switch to espresso... Go to a poetry reading and ask why the poems don't rhyme...

Kids answer questions about love and marriage