SRI Reports - news on socially responsible investment
Responsible investment considers downstream costs - and benefits - Sucheta Rajagopal
We must stop ignoring the contradictions in our lifestyles.
Workplaces
Pensions in doubt - Mike Martin
Plans scramble - and some fail - to bring contribution schemes back in line after the false optimism based on the 90s' bubble market.
Montreal-based manufacturer fires workers for organizing - Maquila Solidarity Network
Anti-sweatshop group calls for independent investigation.
Consumer power
A daily pint of black stuff reduces heart attack risk - nutraingredients.com
Eating more fish, and boosting DHA levels, drastically reduces risk of Alzheimer's - FoodNavigator.com
Community, rights and change
Latimer versus Latimer - Reuel S. Amdur
Even if he doesn't want it, and won't ask for it, Latimer should be released.
It's Child Poverty Awareness Week - North Bay Network for Social Justice
Take the on-line quiz to see how far we've come.
Degree of women's homelessness underestimated, study finds - Canadian Women's Health Network
Homelessness is a health care issue that isn't being addressed due to lack of understanding.
Commentary
Where will Paul Martin take us? - Murray Dobbin
Ontario's new Conservative government - Ish Theilheimer
Plus ça change, more of the same.
On "liberation" and lies - Robert S. Rodvik
"Empire" is the guiding factor in the entire history of US foreign policy.
Ariel Sharon's war against the Palestinians - Scholar details troubled past and brutal history of Israeli PM in new book
Media Files
And you thought missing YOUR deadlines was risky... - Noah Bierman - Miami Herald
Court reporter jailed over missed deadlines.
Notes and Letters
Terrorism as a job classification - Vern Martin
Hot headlines
Barking up the wrong bush - Gwynne Dyer
Instead of focusing on Al Qaeda and the carnage in places like Turkey, U.S. resources are being swallowed up by Iraq.
Hampton rejects Liberal funding proposal - Fort Frances Times
Calls it an insult and bribe.
The butterfly effect - Canadian International Development Agency
Can butterfly "farming" help save the world's vanishing rainforests?
Geneva Accord: Another attempt at hope in Israel - Catholic New Times
Supporters await an "explosion of moderation".
FBI uses new anti-terrorism powers to bug anti-war groups - The Guardian
Feds monitor organizing techniques used by opponents of the war in Iraq.
Georgian people smoke out grey fox Shevardnadze - The Guardian
From glasnost hero to hated lame duck - with lots of help from America working to shore up strategic interests in a place where the Cold War never ended.
UK paying price for US's infantile attempts to reshape Mideast - Robert Fisk, The New Zealand Star
It's the price of joining George Bush's "war on terror".
Report finds few benefits for Mexico in NAFTA - New York Times
Robo-Cops in Miami - Tom Hayden, AlterNet
Arresting the future.
Look at Afghanistan... and fear for Iraq - Nicolas D. Kristof, Toronto Star
Canada a silent partner in Iraq War beyond CPP investment in military industries - Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
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