|
Straight Goods
Cyber Survey and Forum
Manic over Martin?
How do you feel about our new about-to-be prime minister? Will he live up to the hype? Is that good? Express your concerns in the Straight Goods Cyber Survey and win a chance for free Straight Goods bumper stickers.
And speak your mind in the Straight Goods Forum.
|
|
Your health care, your health
Will the health care watchdog have teeth? - Gordon Guyatt, MD
Due to the usual squabbling, the Health Council remains nothing more than a promise.
Communities, rights and change
Social assistance should be one level for all - Reuel S. Amdur
Distinction between employables and the disabled perpetuates underfunding of benefits to those most in need.
Book excerpt
USER ERROR - resisting computer culture - Ellen Rose
A book about computer users and how they - we - surrender decision-making power to personal and workplace computing situations.
Inside Queen's Park
Promise-Keepers?
The sheer predictability of the "cupboard is bare" routine served up by incoming governments makes the new crowd's financial pinch an iffy sell.
Consumer Power
Hazards in our water - Canadian Women's Health Network
Chronic exposure to chemicals in water supply may be harmful to health.
Media Files
Community TV is not a "business" - Westender
Professor Krugman takes the gloves off - Alternet
Columnist tells how he found his voice, why Bush makes him miss Nixon, and why he insults Fox News whenever he can.
CEP to fight foreign ownership of media, telcos
Take Action
Waiting for Martin Cross-Canada Tour coming to your town
Speak up on dragging the ocean floor - Halifax Ecology Action Centre
Help stop desecration of marine life by giant fishing operations.
Take Action
Create a TV ad that tells the truth about George W. Bush - MoveOn.org
Notes and Letters
The candidates were out there, but we didn't hear about them - Stu Vickars
Hot headline
Deported terror suspect details torture in Syria - Washington Post
Canadian's case called typical of CIA.
Cabinet papers warn Canada off GM crops - The Guardian
Farmers fear long-term threat to food exports.
Paul Martin's tainted record - Globe and Mail
US study revives tainted-blood scandal.
Health Canada proposal threatens right to health protection - Canadian Health Coalition
Calls for weaker safety standards, shifts burden to the public.
Blair urged Bush to delay Iraq invasion - Truthout
Cheney ignored war chaos alert.
The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq - Alternet
How big pharmaceutical companies control medicine - Le Monde diplomatique
Iraq: the crumbling coalition - The Independent
Italy mourns, Japan bails, and Bush desperately scrambles.
Denying status to NDP a "fraud" - coalition - London Free Press
Soros gives $15 M to oust Bush, calls it "the central focus of my life." - The Washington Post
Fun with Sue
Lost in translation - Inet humour from SG's Editor of Fun
English be speaking here.
Straight Goods' Drive to Survive is back because, as ever, our existence hangs by a thread. Your small subscription fee pays for access to our vast archives plus ensuring the survival of Canada's independent on-line source of news, ideas, consumer advice, advocacy and fun.
Bay Street marches Martin in, but lame-duck Chrétien spoke for Canadians 
Lord "Doublecross" and his new clothes
White collar workers battered in current US recession