Posted: February 17, 2004

Kitten-eater McGuinty obsesses with deficit - Linda McQuaig
  With business backing, any wimp can cut spending - it's standing up to the business elite that takes guts.

Inside Queen's Park
Town halls set stage for rollback of promises
  Meetings massage interest groups and proclaim "cupboard is bare" message.

Communities, rights and change
Martin government set to drive people into poverty - Reuel Amdur
  New P3 post will deliver the pork to more corporate players, greater losses to workers.

Commentary

A bad winter for Liberals - and Canadians - Ish Theilheimer
  Children should not be exposed to this level of mendacity and corruption.
 

Workplaces
Canadian Labour Congress staff on strike - St. Catharines & District Labour Council
  Talks between central labour body, two unions break down.

Beaten, starved and denied wages - Daniel Howden and Jason Bennetto, The Independent
  Greeks rescue victims of Britain's latest "slave labour" scandal.

Made in ... Deplorable conditions - Paul Knox, The Globe and Mail
  Oxfam report sees both horror and hope in global marketplace; full disclosure needed on labels, writes Knox.

Operation Sweatshop Iraq - Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch
  Temp rates vary $7900 per month, depending on country of origin; taxpayers billed top dollar for phantom work.

Your health and health care
Future Tense - Alisa Gordaneer, Monday Magazine
  Do we want the same treatment we give our seniors - and their caregivers - today?

Campaign against Bill 8 mounting - CUPE
  Collective agreements will be replaced by privatized health care, critics say.

Cut salt: nutrition report - Associated Press
  Food industry opposes lower daily amount recommendation.

Consumers
Critical flaw in Windows, warns Microsoft - CBC News
  Users should download security patch immediately.

Carbs expanding American waistlines: study - CBC News

Scotland and Wales veto GM go-ahead - NUTRAingredients.com
  Major blow to British government.

Australian consumer turns back on GM ingredients - NUTRAingredients.com
  Current labelling laws a hurdle for free trade with US.

Hot headlines
Letter from a terrorist - Gwynne Dyer, The Telegraph - Calcutta
  It is doubtful the US will be able to persuade anyone that foreign terrorists are the source of all their troubles in Iraq, Dyer writes.

W as in AWOL: case not closed - David Corn, The Nation
  Bush's service records generate more questions about conduct, credibility.

Credibility Gap - Tom Engelhardt, MotherJones.com
  Bush has reached a tipping point: the press is at last questioning his credibility.

Scandal rocks Grits support - Ipsos
  Liberal vote plummets to 39 percent: poll.

Fifteen percent would still vote for Bush? - MacLean's article - Richard Bevis

US soldier 'tried to contact al-Qa'ida' - AP
  Used internet chatrooms to offer information on US military capabilities, army says.

Reader comment
BC media mushrooming average citizens - G M Bligh-Shuck

Liberal spending scandal: bigger moral fish to fry - dfcjac
  Is it moral for Martin's ships to fly foreign flags to avoid taxes?

Take action
Stop WalMart - Bob Glaser, San Marcos, California
  Appeal for donations from community group.

Fun with Sue
Twenty years of wedded bliss?
  Internet humour.