Posted: June 10, 2003

Canada's pulse
Peter the fifth: have Canada's Tories found their way? - Marc Zwelling
  Voters admire compromise. The principles they respect are integrity, not allegiance to dogma.

Peter McKay re-opens needed debate over trade deals - Linda McQuaig
  The notion that Canada-US free trade is some kind of untouchable icon for the PCs seems particularly odd.

Inoculating traditional NDP weaknesses key to Doer's success - Donne Flanagan
  In the strange logic of left culture, success is in fact often seen as a sign of a failure to remain true to principles.
 

Team Eves plunges into year five - Inside Queen's Park
  All three parties face pressures with extended Ontario writ timing.

Workplaces
Conductors win $40M labour board judgment against VIA and locomotives' union
  Ruling could amount to payout of $220,000 apiece to former conductors.

Unions fight to maintain medicare - Mike Martin
  Health care is the number one issue on every bargaining table in the US right now and unless Romanow's recommendations are implemented, Canada will face serious labour unrest.

Communities, rights and change
Staff cuts cost - Reuel S. Amdur
  No amount of staffing could have prevented the SARS outbreak, but cutbacks have seriously weakened our ability to deal with it.

Your earth
Nuclear fusion sounds - and probably is - too good to be true - Suzanne Elston
  Even the most optimistic fusion scientists say ITER's dream of commercially viable fusion is at least a half-century away.

Courage, smoking and the WHO - Suzanne Elston
  Barb Tarbox has changed many lives with the example of her own.
 

Eves' Government Pickering Nuclear Review: "a one-sided whitewash" - Sierra Club of Canada

Commentary
Corporate Canada and predation in Africa - Kim Peterson
  Massacres and ongoing human rights abuses in Sudan, Congo, Tanzania and elsewhere go unreported.

Africa's Thirty Years War - Gwynne Dyer
  The International Rescue Agency, an American aid group, estimated in April that between 3.1 and 4.7 million people have died because of the war, mostly from famine and disease. How will a thousand UN troops help at all?

The GM mirage will not help the poor - Alex Wijeratna, ActionAid
  Painstaking development efforts, not the GM promise of miracle yields, hold most hope for the hungry.

Take action
Please join me - say No to Star Wars - Mel Watkins
  Register your opposition to Canada's involvement in missile defence via ceasefire.ca.

Demand fair treatment for beef industry workers - MP fax campaign - UFCW and CLC

Reader comment
Defending the Cadet program - Amanda Weller, Sea Cadet
  "Cadets has given me a larger sense of pride for my country. It has shown me things I might never have known outside cadets."

Hot headlines
Democracy Watch urges quick passage of strengthened Bill C-24 fundraising law

Welcome To Iraq, Mr. President - Robert Fisk
  What Bush should do if he wants to understand the crisis that now confronts the nation he was so keen to "liberate".
 

Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil - The Guardian