Posted: January 28, 2003
Updated: January 30, 2003

Jack Layton, miracle man - Mel Watkins
  This party is now open, and will so remain, to new people and new politics in a way that it has not been for thirty years and that surely matters.
 

NDP 2003 Leadership Voting Analysis - with thanks to Alex Ng
  How the candidates polled among NDP members and labour, and how much money they raised.

Layton's broad coalition will serve party well - Jim Harding
  Achilles heel will be his tendancy, if the media make him their darling, toward self-promotion.

NDP Convention notebook - John Alan Ashton
  A delegate's ground-floor view of ups, downs, tears and triumph.
 
 

NDP could get third-time lucky with Layton win - Ish Theilheimer
  Layton grew in stature and competence through brilliant campaign.
 

Commentary
PM's proposed ban on corporate political contributions a rare chance - Linda McQuaig
  Public already supports political parties through deductions it gives corporations - open and direct public funding for parties makes more sense.
 

Get big money out of Canadian politics - Democracy Watch
  Take part in a historic opportunity to create a democratic political finance system.

Nuclear strike a 'likely scenario' if Saddam takes a last stand - Mike Martin
  Some good advice from the Cold-War seventies may come in handy this year.

For the children of Iraq
  An address delivered by British journalist and writer Felicity Arbuthnot.

The Ants and the Grasshoppers - Steve Pitt
  A modern allegory for the Middle East.

SRI Reports - news about Socially Responsible Investment
Canada needs new disclosure rules to prevent another huge financial scandal - Eugene Ellmen, Social Investment Organization
  Securities commissions should give investors here the same rights that investors will soon have south of the border.

Privatization
Building for profit costs a bundle - Lewis Auerbach
  Objective analysis needed to see whether proposed P3 hospitals save or lose money for the public.

Hospitals or Hydro, for-profit is bad news - Dr. Gordon Guyatt
  Ontario government has ignored the problems of for-profit delivery and plunged ahead with privatization plans.
 

Communities, rights and change
Promoting health does not mean just promoting medicine - Reuel S. Amdur
  And how can we get doctors into community clinics?
 

Peterborough not-for-profit group makes rent affordable - Karen Hicks
  A community learns to look after some housing needs itself, without senior government support.

Your earth
Increasing evidence DU causes great harm - Suzanne Elston
  Chemically toxic and radioactive DU dust has entered the water table and fauna and flora in Iraq, former Yugoslavia and now Afghanistan and will still be polluting when the sun goes out.

What are 'chemtrails' made of? - Barry Hendry, Bancroft Times
  Requests for information about jet engine emissions get evasive government response.

Greenpeace boards single-hull tanker in Gibraltar

Fifty years of atomic energy foul-ups - Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout
  Report reveals $17.5 billion in federal government subsidies to AECL.

Workplaces

No-scents solutions for indoor air quality - Mike Martin
  Sensitive workplaces for the chemically sensitive.
 
 

Hot headlines
World rebels against America - Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star
  Bush can bomb Iraq but has already lost political war.

Lower Mainland getting skewed share of BC income tax cuts - CCPA
  Growing gap between the Lower Mainland and BC's other regions.

Take action
Political scientists call for national referendum on electoral reform - Fair Vote Canada

Humour
Good things about being a woman