Posted: June 17, 2003
Updated: June 18, 2003

Books online - buyer beware - Penney Kome
  Buying books from the big on-line retailers can be more expensive than from a small store - and availability is by no means universal.

West Nile danger limited to 5-6 weeks with far less risk in "cottage country" - Ish Theilheimer
  How to close windows of opportunity for the mosquito-borne disease.
 
 

Unite the right still DOA - Linda McQuaig
  Red Tories of the Bill Davis school are steeped in Progressive tradition and have almost nothing in common with David Frum-style right-wingers and never will.

Workplaces
Airport workers to pay price in wake of Air Canada meltdown - Mike Martin
  If you can't make money running a monopoly like an airport in Toronto, then somebody should be asking questions.

Mississauga union organizers attacked - Wynne Hartviksen
  Signs of escalating intimidation in Ontario.
 

Would Jesus contract out? - Monday Magazine
  Salvation Army labour dispute in Victoria.

Communities, rights and change

Charest promises to square the circle - Reuel S. Amdur
  Increase services, cut staff and taxes.
 
 

Solution to federal-provincial bickering over health - Dr. Gordon Guyatt
  Canada needs a national Health Council including public representatives, academic experts in health care, and experienced health care managers.

When worlds collide - Andrew Jackson and Matthew Sanger
  Trade agreements and the non profit sector.

Commentary
Jessica Lynch: the road not traveled - Ted Schmidt, Catholic New Times
  It is the poor who pay the price as social programs are slashed to privilege the rich.

Media files
US journos sacked for reporting critical of war - In These Times

Hot headlines
Blix lashes out at American 'bastards' - Toronto Star

EPA permits Florida to pollute freshwater aquifers - Environment News Service

Italy is in trouble - Gwynne Dyer
  "We risk becoming a regime without even realising it."
 
 

Ontario politics
"Rae was wrong" - Hampton - Toronto Star
  Re-embraces public auto insurance after former leader's prominent abandonment of key promise.

NDP turns its back on union money - Ian Urquhart, Toronto Star
  Unions realize they contribute less than corporations.

Insurance blues
Average joe awash in insurance woes
  Brokers turn away new business.

Auto- insurance industry in crisis - Globe and Mail