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Posted: July 10, 2003
Environmental advocate Gary Gallon dies in Montreal
Former stockbroker - and Straight Goods contributor - made mark as environmental analyst.
Hydrogen economy might have negative impact on Earth's stratosphere - Gary T. Gallon, 1945 - 2003
Uncertainty remains because scientists still have a limited understanding of the hydrogen cycle.
 Commentary
Olympian hype obscures downsides of hosting games - Linda McQuaig
Imagine if a billion dollars of public money spent on activities even more vital to people's lives than bobsleigh, luge and skeleton.
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Demon Rum and the perils of privatization - Trevor Harrison, CCPA
200 red brick Alberta government liquor stores replaced in a year by nearly a thousand private stores, some large, many small, some clean, far too many run down and seedy.
When democracy failed: the warnings of history - Thom Hartmann
A powerful historic review of the rise of Hitler and its modern parallels on the occasion of Germany's grim 70th anniversary.
Eye-Raq entertainment as psychological warfare - Dan Singer
New and old novelties and distractions located in the Eye-Raq Entertainment tool-kit.
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Air Canada victim of a thousand self-inflicted cuts - Mike Martin
Airline created the room and air space for competitors and let its brand name lose its appeal.
Book excerpt
Accounting for Genocide - Dean Neu and Richard Therrien
Canada's Bureaucratic Assault on Aboriginal People.
Read an extract (in .pdf format)
(Requires Acrobat Reader - download now)
Media files
Globe's suicide bomb - René Biberstein, NOW Magazine
Photo perpetuates terrorist stereotypes of Arabs.
Surviving the Internet
A mob for no reason - Martyn Perks, Spiked-online
Keen to demonstrate how information technology (IT) can bring people together, some individuals are causing spontaneous gatherings to occur in the strangest of places.
Take Action
Clicking counter keeps running total on the cost of the attack against Iraq
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Consumers
Ebay buyer Beware - Jonah Engle, The Nation
Online auction company gives police any personal info they request about vendors or customers.
Fun on the Internet
Hijacked page asks what everyone wonders about
Feeling lucky about WMDs.
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