Posted: October 29, 2002

Health Care
Newly developed drugs pose more dangers for patients - Dr. Gordon Guyatt
  Unless newer drugs are clearly better, doctors and patients best stick with tried-and-true medications.
 

Voters reject private hospitals in Sweden - Daniel Cohn
  Last summer Canada's private health lobby held Sweden up as a society willing to embrace for-profit hospitals. Problem is, Swedes said no thanks.

Follow the money Political commentary from Linda McQuaig Corporate Canada bankrolls Martin's leadership bid   Some democratic reform! Multi-million dollar backers will have more impact on political choices than increased rights for MPs. $9-billion surplus undermines poverty plea in health care debate

Plan to attend the Straight Goods Media Panel Stories Media Blew in 2002 Saturday, November 9 in Toronto with featured panelists John Miller (Ryerson), Antonia Zerbisias (Star), Rick Salutin (Globe), Kirk LaPointe (former CTV exec)

War with Iraq vs diplomacy with North Korea
  Animator Jim Kempkes explains all.
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Guns and America
"Your children are not safe" - but WHY? - Michael Moore

Stand up to Bush and the NRA - Michael Moore
  Here's your chance to trash their crooked agenda.

Bowling for Baghdad - Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
  If it's just guns that kill people, why are Canadians not slaughtering themselves the way people in the US are?

Everything you need to know about gun control in the US - The Guardian

Consumers

Superstore self-scanner - Bruce Wark
  This is the leisure society?
 
 

Environment

Eat your Jack-O-Lantern - Suzanne Elston
  And other ecological tips for Halloween.
 
 

Great Lakes reactors emit tritium into water - Bruce Centre
  Canadian guidelines ten times higher than US.

Food manufacture: some facts - World Watch Institute
  Agrochemicals, food retail, and environmental consequences.

Exposing illegal Canadian electronic waste dumping in Asia

NDP Leadership Race NDP leadership candidates debate the issues Comartin's message about rebuilding   Straight Goods interviews NDP leadership hopeful Joe Comartin, who says salvation lies in gruntwork, not glitz.   Join the forum on NDP leadership Unions yet to voice support on NDP leadership - Mike Martin   Labour support likely to break after key Oct. 28 debate.

The Straight Goods Cyber Forum The new Art of turning a profit - Larry Solway   Business and Art: good $$$ sense or unholy stew? Join the debate, take the Straight Goods Cyber Survey and qualify for a prize in the weekly draw.

Northern Exposure

Only in Sudbury - Mick Lowe
  A cultural adventure like this could only happen here.
 

Media files
PBS to air evidence that Bush stole 2000 election
  Two films on the Palast investigation of vote theft in Florida are set for their television premiers this month.

What a difference four years make - FAIR
  Then and now news coverage of why inspectors left Iraq.

Take action
Thousands to expose double standard in war on terrorism
  A massive convergence to close the School of the Americas.

March for Peace, Not War in Iraq on November 17

Carve Pumpkins for Peace!

Hot headlines
US bank fiascos loom - Insight
  Many are warning that Enron was just the first to fall in a shaky house of cards.

Will tide shift as middle class disappears in America? - Paul Krugman, New York Times
  If the rich get richer, that leaves less for everyone else.