Posted: January 20, 2004

Workplaces

Martin prepares to sell off public service - Mike Martin
  Not since the Brian Mulroney days have we seen such active drooling by corporate lobbyists.
 

The tale of Princess Sheila - Mel Watkins
  The horror King Paul can never escape.
 
 

Misguided cant on Aboriginal policy - Boyce Richardson
  God save us from intellectuals like John Richards.
 

Belinda Stronach could lead new Tories into the age of media politics - Linda McQuaig
  She has at least the qualifications of George W. Bush or Stockwell Day.
 

SRI reports - news about Socially Responsible Investment
SRI RRSP ABC's - Sucheta Rajagopal
  Once you have decided to put some sort of values based criteria into your investment decisions, how do you go about doing that?

Inside Queen's Park
Wringing in the new year
  McGuinty's trial balloons being floated were all deemed by the previous PC regime to be too radically right-wing.

Communities, rights and change
Buying into US world domination - Reuel S. Amdur
  The Liberal Party is being swamped by Bush's Republicans. Are we hitching our wagon to the US juggernaut?
 

Ending the sugar trap - disease of globalization - David Ransom, The New Internationalist
  Why not transfer the vast public treasure currently squandered on sugar to the reclamation of sugarcane plantations?

The ordination of women priests: 'getting on with it' - Catholic New Times
  Women's worldwide ordination conference to be held in Ottawa in 2005.

Hot headlines
The farm crisis and the myths of "competition" and "efficiency" - National Farmers Union
  The family farm is not dying - it is being killed.

Feisty jabs from the left bruise Liberal expectations - Hugh Winsor, Globe and Mail
  Broadbent's comeback raises yet another unexpected obstacle right in Martin's backyard.

America's empire of bases - Chalmers Johnson, tomdispatch.com
  A vast network of American bases on every continent except Antarctica constitutes a new form of empire.

A war in search of a reason - Dr. Ivan Eland
  Bush's former Treasury Secretary confirms tenuous connection between 9-11 and Iraqi invasion.

US presidential campaign: in search of the elusive swing voter - Joshua Green, The Atlantic Monthly
  The road map for the coming presidential campaign runs straight through the handful of states with the largest numbers of independent voters.

The troubled marriage of environmentalists and oil companies - Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, special to CorpWatch
  Do alliances between environmentalists and oil companies provide crucial leverage or produce mutant offspring?

Venezuela decriminalizes drug possession - Alberto M. Giordano, Narco News
  Government of Hugo Chávez takes giant step for drug policy reform and human freedom.

The royal family of American democracy - Dante Chinni, Christian Science Monitor
  Former Republican strategist O'Neil criticizes all things Bush.

Media files
US military 'brutalised' journalists - Luke Harding, The Guardian
  News agency demands inquiry after American forces in Iraq allegedly treated camera crew as enemy personnel.

Black's media empire in tatters - NY Times
  Even welches on library pledge.

Letters
Taking issue with Zwelling on homosexuality - Randal Marlin, Ottawa

Take action
Appeal from South Korea for support for migrants - LabourStart
  Government plans to deport tens of thousands.

Campaign to release John Graham, native rights activist
  American Indian Movement veteran faces extradition.

Humour
Darwin Awards 2003
  Here's the latest annual list of those who did the universal gene pool a favour.