Posted: December 02, 2003

Beware of phony citizens' groups sponsored by drug companies - Gordon Guyatt, MD
  Patient advocacy groups are often not what they seem.
 

Arar case forces Martin to reposition on US relations - Linda McQuaig
  Will new PM take be as tough standing up for Canadian interests as he was clamping down on welfare mothers, unemployed workers and downsized government employees?

Boyce Richardson: "I'm a reporter. Isn't that a position of responsibility?" - Barbara Goslawski
  Crusading film journalist and author of Memoirs of a Media Maverick in conversation.
 

David Miller: A new broom for Toronto - Inside Queen's Park
  An interview with the megacity's newly elected, photogenic proudly progressive mayor.
 

Communities, rights a change
BC's Campbell wants to starve the poor - Reuel S. Amdur
  But success of Vancouver progressives shows an appeal to basic decency can sometimes work.

Another look at Martin's fiscal legacy - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
  Cuts to government programs painful and unnecessary.

Workplaces

The Internet and the Labour Movement - Armand Roy
  Few unions have grasped the organizing potential of new technologies.
 

After the big US steel meltdown - Greg Keenan, Globe and Mail
  Is shakeout in US industry a sign of things to come for Canadian companies and workers in troubled industry?

Consumer power
Sick of Atkins? There's a new diet in town - Lucy Atkins, The Guardian
  Glycaemic index approach to eating could have health benefits for us all.

Pester power: Marketing's new weapon - Shari Graydon, Globe and Mail
  You may not know it but your three-year-old may have picked out that new car you're driving.

The Old Age Security clawback vs grab-back and futile RRSP's - Daniel W. Palladini, DetectaPension
  Estimated 50,000 widow(er)s missing out on up to $10,000 annually in Old Age Security Allowance benefits. About one million Canadians contribute to an RRSP in vain.

Hot headlines
I was not the real story in Airbus scandal - Stevie Cameron
  Why focus on me and bury Brian Mulroney's accepting $300,000 from infamous German-Canadian arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber after stepping down as PM?

TD knew Enron cooked its books - by Karen Howlett and Paul Waldie, Globe and Mail
  Bankers aware of 'balance-sheet games,' aided and abetted manipulation.

A conversation with Jack Layton on World AIDS Day - National Union
  Canada's NDP leader says Canadian Strategy for HIV/AIDS falls short of what is required.

What European Union? - Will Hutton, The Observer
  Assailed from both within and without, the European project, always fragile, is now at breaking point.

An Apology to Younger Americans - Sam Smith, The Progressive Review, via AlterNet
  We became not only the generation that invented the phrase, 'never trust anyone over thirty,' we proved it.

Civil liberties at risk, warns ex-spy chief - Jim Bronskill, Canoe News
  Government has "virtually unreviewable" power to label organizations and activities as terrorists.

Donkey arrested by US forces in Baghdad - Abdul Hamid Ahmad, Gulf News
  Iraq resistance donkey to be lodged at Guantanamo, or turned into a spy?

FTAA ship runs aground, but party goes on - Tom Hayden, AlterNet
  "The good news is that the US-Bush expansion of NAFTA has been pushed back and derailed. The bad news is that the boneheads and their client governments are still on their mission."

"They only arrested the Muhammads" - Toronto Star
  23 students falsely labelled 'terrorists' Failed marriages, lost jobs left in wake.

A wedding in Canada - Clifford Krauss, New York Times
  Gay couples follow a trail north blazed by slaves and war resisters.