Posted: July 01, 2003

Where's the beef from Klein's grovelling for US? - Linda McQuaig
  Ending the practice of feeding animals to animals would be a better fix to beef industry's problems.
 

Your health*
Evidence-based medicine challenges accepted medical practices - Gordon Guyatt, MD
  Doctors have not been taught how to evaluate original research or help patients weigh up the benefits, and risks, of alternative therapies.
  *Sponsored by Ontario Coalition of Senior Citizens Organizations

Workplaces
Pay equity is Law in Canada - Mike Martin
  "Bell's arguments are without merit" - Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and Justice Michel Bastarache.
 

Power politics
Don't send our electricity South - Susan Thompson
  The US is working hard to rectify oversight of electrical power in NAFTA.

Proposed securities reforms not enough - Social Investment Organization
  Ethical and environmental indicators needed.

Media files

Government derelict for a decade in duties to Canadian TV - Wendy Lill, MP
  Broadcast report lays bare the disastrous results of underfunding and neglect.
 

The Internet under surveillance - Reporters Without Borders
  Obstacles to the free flow of information online.

Death of right-wing rag has lessons - Reuel S. Amdur
  RIP (Alberta) Report. Will Straight Goods be next?
 

Hot headlines
Alarmist Iraq hype backfires on Tony Blair - Gordon Barthos, Toronto Star
  Blair and Bush pay for torquing the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.

BBC and Tony Blair battle over weapons claims - BBC News
  An unprecedented and highly-charged row between the government and the BBC over who is telling the truth.

Mafia military commanders, ministers on the make - Washington Post
  Pakistan's iron fist flattens peasants up in arms against the biggest criminal syndicate imaginable: the national army.

North America insecurity perimeter - Andrew Jackson, CCPA
  Why the Big Idea is a Bad Idea.

Natural gas crisis coming? - Dale Allen Pfeiffer, fromthewilderness.com
  In order to avoid a crisis next winter, we must build our storage up to record levels.

Deaths of immigrants uncover makeshift world of smuggling - Kate Zernike with Ginger Thompson, NY Times

Take action


Urgent appeal to save Iranian resistance leader Maryam Rajavi
 
 

Uplifting humanity - Suzanne Elston
  Non-profits deserve more support from all of us.