Posted: January 13, 2004

Cable TV moguls keen on looser foreign ownership rules - Linda McQuaig
  With former Rogers exec in Martin's inner office and Copps gone from Cabinet, the cable guys might soon find their estate planning much more enjoyable.

Your health, your health care
Two-tier medicine threatens equitable health care delivery
  The best solution to Canada Health Act violations is reduction in waiting lists to acceptable, writes Gordon Guyatt, MD.
 

Canada's pulse
How the gays won - Marc Zwelling
  How homosexuals achieved so much so fast is a lesson in how to sway public opinion. But it's not the conventional lesson.

Workplaces
US Labour Dept. tells employers how to take back newly-mandated overtime pay - Mike Martin
  Bush Administration seeks to undo changes forced by courts, which have consistently ruled workers must be paid for all hours worked.

Communities, rights and change
Drug raids in BC highlight reactionary tie to Martin - Reuel S. Amdur
  The gap between the rich and the poor in Canada is growing, and that appears to be just what Paul Martin and his millionaire flying buddies want.

Commentary
Ferry strike reflects Campbell cabal's ideology - Robert S. Rodvik
  BC Liberals plan to alter BC's social contract with its workers and citizens.

Missile defence
Martin leads Canada off into the wild blue yonder - Reuel S. Amdur
  The War on Terror is heating up: Iraq is only the appetizer - the missile shield is the main course.

Project Ploughshares to Paul Martin - missile defence won't protect us - Ernie Regehr, Project Ploughshares
  Canada has always taken, and should continue to take a different approach to security.

NDP website raises money to campaign against Star Wars involvement
  Effort imitates Howard Dean on-line campaign strategy.
 

Letters
Straight Goods hoaxed on "James" article - Norm Jesin
  "General" a creation designed to give credibility.

New ideas about training just more empty rhetoric - Mike Dirienzo, Ottawa

Hot headlines
Iraq's arsenal was only on paper - Barton Gellman, Washington Post
  Since Gulf War, non-conventional weapons never got past the planning stage.

How the war machine is driving the US economy - Andrew Gumbel, The Independent
  Military Keynsianism might get Bush re-elected, but it is starting to worry economists.

Cheney's role in Halliburton bribery scandal target of French criminal investigation - David J. Sirota, The Progress Report

Bush's climate policy bigger threat to world than terrorism - Steve Connor, The Independent
  Tony Blair's chief scientist has launched a withering attack on President Bush for failing to tackle climate change.

Lula must be doing something right - Gwynne Dyer, The Salt Lake Tribune
  With foreign investors happy, Brazil's leftist leader can focus on the poor.
 
 

Brazil: no economy without democracy - Gilles de Staal, Le Monde Diplomatique
  Only if President Lula da Silva's government can change the fundamental basis of the land ownership in Brazil is there any hope for a more equal, prosperous and bloodless future for the country.

Saudi women kept in the shadows - Mouna Naim, Guardian Weekly
  "Why was I born a girl? This is a country of men, and I wish I was one."

Birth certificate wait times caused by revolving door HR policies - OPSEU
  Horrendous waits result from Tory cuts.

Liberal McGuinty to implement Tory-like agenda in Ontario - Gloria Galloway, Globe and Mail
  Plans cuts, privatization and public service tax freeze to balance Ontario's books.

Michigan's online ballot spurs new strategies for Democrats - Katharine Q. Seelye
  Can it extend Internet voting beyond the young and affluent?

Consumers
Aspartame disease: an FDA-approved epidemic - H. J. Roberts, MD
  Diet products containing the chemical sweetener aspartame can have multiple neurotoxic, metabolic, allergenic, fetal and carcinogenic effects.

Goodbye audio tape, and welcome to the world of digital recording - Jordan Raphael, USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review
  Digital recording software makes recording from phone easy to use even for a total tech refusnik.

Media files
Elm Street dead
  High-quality women's mag the latest entry in Canadian media graveyard.

News sites a welcome alternative to the mainstream - Antonia Zerbisias, Toronto Star
  Spend money on reading that matters.

Take action
Resources for Radicals #5 - Toronto Action for Social Change
  Annotated bibliography of print resources for those involved in movements for social transformation.