Posted: January 07, 2003
'Nigerian e-mail scam' a success story for crooks - Charlie Angus
All it takes is a virtual stack of e-mail addresses and a tall tale. And it works: this scam has taken Canadians for millions.
The Pentagon's new weapons of mass sedation - Stephen James Kerr
'Non-lethal weapons' will be used to quell civil unrest in the 'homeland' and in the far-flung reaches of the Pax Americana. In this new medical arms race, the weapons are sedative drugs.
Signposts of the decline of the Wal-Mart empire? - Mike Martin
The Wal-Mart retail formula isn't proving that it works everywhere - or forever.
Wal-Mart not the only greedy one
Straight Goods' readers write on Wally World.
Commentary
Zero power, zero tolerance - fraud forgiveness is for the privileged - Linda McQuaig
Powerful people caught at fraud rarely get punished for a lifetime, while Kimberley Roger's world was one without second chances.
Why so anxious for Chrétien to go? - Linda McQuaig
We've got numbers that tell us who wants Chrétien out - old folks do, young folks don't - but what's the hurry?
What can any one person do in the face of war? - Jamie Swift
These times are like the book 1984, with its endless war with an enemy that kept changing.
Bad Smell - John Urban
John Urban, a Canadian born in the US, reflects on the land of his birth, its role in world affairs, and the American psyche.
If the gods love us in '03 - Ish Theilheimer
It could be a very good year.
Canada's Pulse
Romanow report DOA? - Marc Zwelling
Canadians consistently show they are willing to pay more to preserve medicare, but they won't write politicians a blank cheque.
Health Care
Romanow's decision based on hard evidence, public input - Dr. Gordon Guyatt
Solid research and decision-making led Romanow to public health care.
Adding social workers to the health care equation - Reuel S. Amdur
Social workers could ease pressure on our health care system.
Your Earth
Enviro-devolutionists of 2002 - Suzanne Elston
Awards for lemming-like behavior go to the Ontario government and the makers of single-use everything, among others.
Media files
Five vanishing suspects fuel terror alarm and racial tension - Peter Cheney & Victor Malarek, Globe and Mail
But there appears to be no basis whatever for holiday-season reports Pakistani terrorists sneaked from Canada, through Akwesasne, to US.
Layton combines charisma and pragmatism
Comartin will take NDP forward
