Posted: November 26, 2002
Media Files
Grief counselling a growth industry - Bruce Wark
But good grief, what does this tell us about where society has gone?
Journalism at the heart of democracy - June Callwood
Journalism enjoys its finest moments when it speaks against oppression and greed.
Commentary
Did the body snatchers get Bob Woodward? - Linda McQuaig
More U.S. media acquiescence to the post-9/11 White House as it overturns restraints on government power put in place in direct response to abuses unveiled in the Watergate scandal.
W's true service record - AWOL, deserter or intelligence trainee? - from Straight Goods reader Larry Piltz in Austin, Texas
During AWOL time, Bush worked for Dad's fellow Zapata Oil executive.
What to expect from Romanow - Jim Harding
Luckily, Romanow - something less than a health care hero in SK - won't take the flack for his recommendations.
Catholics missing in action in war protest - Ted Schmidt, Catholic New Times
Church leaders need take to the streets.
Energy politics
Ontario Hydro's circuitous return to rate caps - Michael Janigan, Public Interest Advocacy Centre
Privatization driven more by assumptions than reality and common sense.
Why nuclear refits at Bruce Pickering cost so much and take so long
Insider says it will cost LOTS to refit first-generation OPG CANDUs to meet current OPG and International standards.
Free markets and high prices don't solve environmental problems - Keith Stewart, Ph.D
International experience shows higher prices do not lead to conservation.
Hydro subsidies hide true cost of energy - Suzanne Elston
Artificially low rates keep debt, energy use high.
Community, rights and change
Contracting out the social contract - Reuel S. Amdur
Government outsourcing risks discrimination and poverty wages.
Working
Policy exits to low-wage ghetto - Judith Maxwell, President, Canadian Policy Research Networks
How we can improve the lot of low-paid workers.
Wonder about your workplace rights?
You might want to print out portions of this workers' rights site from the Canadian Labour Congress to post on the job.
Consumers
'Miracle pills' an alarming trend
Drugs promoted to provide quick cures to diseases do as much harm as good, new research finds.
Car insurers refusing new customers because of rising car accident costs - CBC News
Hot headlines
Bush aide: Inspections or not, we'll attack Iraq - The Mirror
The victors and spoils of US government privatization - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Coalition headed by CUPE and CEP takes feds to court over medicare violations
Nuns among 86 arraigned for peaceful action to close US terror training school - School of the Americas Watch
Scribbled note is all woman has from husband jailed in Syria - Ottawa Citizen
Harvest hope in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - NOW Toronto
Israelis and Arabs stare down gun-toting settler in olive groves.
Bush may be 'moron': stupidity experts - Common Dreams
Take action
Holding corporations to account
A panel discussion on corporate responsibility.
Humour
Song: Bomb Iraq
If we cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq...
Hu's on first - Jim Sherman
This one's been making the rounds on the Internet since the appointment of China's new leader.
Kyoto opposition rolls out talking-head scientists
