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Communities, rights and change
Martin & Charest dump on working people and the poor - Reuel S. Amdur
While Martin is giving $4.4 billion to the corporations, Charest is up to much the same kind of corporate-pleasing behavior in Quebec.
Inside Queen's Park
Ontario Libs' bleak image makeover
McGuinty government seeks absolution from implementing its election platform.
Commentary
Paul Martin: Liar, liar, pants on fire! - Murray Dobbin
When it comes to his shipping company it seems Mr Martin believes he can simply deny the facts and continually get away with it.
BC Liberals in bed with the Feds - Kay Hardy
A whimsical poem about a big potential scandal for the new PM.
Workplaces
New federal ideas about training for workers long overdue - Mike Martin
Employers and employees should embrace concept of learning institute.
Media files
The top 25 censored media stories of 2002-2003 - Project Censored
Citizen Conrad's friends - Paul Krugman, NY Times
Lord Black kept on payroll William Buckley, George Will and others who share his political views.
Black whacks at FDR but cannot elude scent of vanity publishing - Michael Janeway, NY Times
A review of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Lord of Springwood
Hot headlines
Mad Cow USA - John Stauber, AlterNet
The nightmare begins.
Persecuted for spilling goods about US spying on diplomats at the UN - Norman Solomon
Daniel Ellsberg says leak for which former British intelligence employee is being prosecuted is "more timely and potentially more important than the Pentagon Papers."
"How Much Is A Liar's Word Worth?" - Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson endorses Kucinich, records anti-war song What Ever Happened To Peace On Earth.
Uncle Sam wants you, eh? - James Ridgeway, Village Voice
US Military tries to recruit Canada's Inuit, claims that under the 1794 Jay Treaty it had the right to recruit Canadian native inhabitants for its military.
The "war on terror" distracts from the real priorities that face the world - Gwynne Dyer
A hijack has occurred, and the course of history really may have changed.
Straight talk: big business and the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement fifteen years later - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Despite free trade claims, big business lobby's members shed jobs and amassed wealth--report.
Lenny Bruce, pardoned and laughing
Pataki's posthumous pardon cracks critics up.
The death of Horatio Alger - Paul Krugman, The Nation
Due to neo-con policies, we are becoming a society in which the poor tend to stay poor.
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The Corporation coming to a theatre near you - with your help
"Cogent, entertaining, even rabble rousing indictment of of perhaps the most influential institutional model of our era" - Variety
Academics and journalists ignore false pretenses for war
