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Posted: May 27, 2003
The questions not asked - Gillian Steward
Mad Cow ID raises possible link to tax-subsidized, politically favoured game farms in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
 What Canadians need to know about Mad Cow Disease - Bradford Duplisea
By only testing 900 cattle a year we are putting Canadians at risk. We should be testing thousands of cattle a week, as is done in Europe, and immediately ban meat and bone meal from entering the food chain.
 American media help Bushites squash public debate - Linda McQuaig
Only an administration supremely confident of the media's docility would have risked staging an event like Bush's landing on the aircraft carrier - Compare with Canadian media treatment of Stock Day in a wetsuit!
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Diamonds are Forever... - Ross Peterson
Shipment records prove Liberia acted as paymaster of Sierra Leone's barbarous civil war to get into the rich diamond trade.
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Air Canada asks workers for big cuts - Mike Martin
It could get much worse before it gets better.
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Commentary
Kosovo in perspective - an anti-communist crusade - Richard Ziegler
NATO intervened in Kosovo not because one side was losing but because the wrong side was losing.
Three weddings and a funeral: Hydro privatization in BC - Marjorie Griffin Cohen
For BC Hydro - and the public which owns the very sizeable electricity assets in BC - new liaisons offer an extremely costly and unstable future.
Ontario politics
Platform and windmill tilting, but no vote - Inside Queen's Park
Eves searches for a hook on which to hang Ontario re-election campaign.
Communities, rights and change
StatsCan finds little change in poverty situation - Reuel S. Amdur
While Parliament pledged to abolish child poverty by the end of the century, the rate actually increased slightly, from 18.2% to 18.4% in the past decade.
ODSP, what they did to me - Brenda Loy Brown
A poem about life on disability benefits.
Media files
War spin: The truth about Jessica Lynch - CBC Passionate Eye
Made-for-TV rescue wowed 'em in Peoria - except half of it was bunk.
Nova Scotia government wins 3rd annual Code of Silence Award - CAJ
Canadian journalists rate top story-hiders of the year.
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Hot Headlines
THE most senior Republican authority on foreign relations in Congress has warned President Bush that the United States is on the brink of catastrophe in Iraq - Roland Watson, Times of London
Fatally wounded - Isabel Hilton, The Guardian
Economic liberalization destroyed China's health service - now it must rely on police, not doctors, to fight SARS.
The looting of Iraq's nuclear facilities: What do we do now? - Susan Rice, The Globe and Mail
Are Saddam Hussein's weapons now safely out of the hands of potential "evildoers"? Frighteningly, and possibly tragically, the answer may well be no.
Why two women went to war - Naomi Klein
Jessica Lynch and Rachel Corrie could have passed for sisters. Two all-American blondes, two destinies forever changed in a Middle East war zone.
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Activists prep for July WTO meet in Montreal - Yves Engler
The WTO has never been legitimized democratically in Canada. And the current lack of debate is further undermining its legitimacy.
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