Your health and health care
Universal health care keeps costs in line - Gordon Guyatt
Privatized health care simply costs more - especially for those who can ill afford it.
Never mind SARS and exotic flus - guard against the big killers - Mike Martin
Three-quarters of Canadian deaths related to diet, inactivity.
Record number of families are living on the edge - Vanier Institute of the Family
Disposable incomes are down, while debt and spending soar.
Workplaces
Remaking America in Wal-Mart's image - The Black Commentator, AlterNet
California lockout cuts costs for corporations competing to see who can squeeze workers hardest.
Steelworkers demonstrate to save Stelco jobs
Help send a message: concessions are not the solution.
Union activists' opinions needed
Harvard University Global Labour Survey online.
BC trade unionists need your help! - Gene McGuckin
Keep pressure up on CLC to restrain IWA job raiding.
Haiti in perspective
Why Is Haiti Cursed? - Gwynne Dyer, Salt Lake Tribune
Two centuries later, Haiti still paying price for history of slavery revolt.
Progressive economic agenda in Haiti under attack - submitted by Penney Kome, Calgary
US support for democracy essential, Congresswoman says.
Media vs. reality in Haiti - Anthony Fenton, Znet
Corporate media fomenting instability.
Canadian politics
For Paul Martin, the end does justify the means - Murray Dobbin, Winnipeg Free Press
Akaash letter puts Martin's integrity into question.
Liberals, NDP tied in BC poll - CBC News
Provincial parties garner 40 percent each of decided vote.
Ontario Liberals' PR strategy includes civil servants - Richard Brennan, Toronto Star
Leaked memo shows desire to use bureaucrats as paritsan political staff.
Ontario's town hall meetings: McGuinty's manipulations - Maggie Hughes
Where common decency goes from being "a drain on the system" to just plain "down the drain".
Tomorrow's winner could well be Layton - Roy MacGregor, The Globe and Mail
Conservative leadership hopefuls fail to impress.
South of the border
Justice a l'Orange - Tom Engelhardt, MotherJones.com
Arrogance meets incompetence: the Bush administration's scandals would make a fine movie.
British spy op wrecked peace move - Martin Bright, Peter Beaumont and Jo Tuckman for The Observer
US, British spies subverted resolution to give weapons inspectors more time.
The Assassination of Howard Dean - Naeem Mohaiemen, AlterNet
Did the powerful institutions that Dean baited bite him in the end?
Bush's endgame: down the path to endless war - Kurt Nimmo, Counterpunch.org
A review of The Sorrows of Empire, a new book by ex-CIA agent Chalmers Johnson.
Aid and discomfort - Dave Gilson and Emilie Raguso, MotherJones.com
When it comes to Washington's "willing" allies, a dismal human rights record doesn't necessarily mean an end to aid.
Reader comment
French ban on headscarves - tOM Trottier
The French Assembly is wrong to ban Muslim headscarves and other religious symbols in public schools.
Did Canadian airline ticket prices go up or down after deregulation? - Joel E. Smith, British Columbia
Writer seeking stats.
Media files
Lies, Damned Lies, and Google - Lionel Beehner
It's all the rage for writers to prove their points by citing Google. One problem: the stats are meaningless.
Take action
Invitation to join Christian Peacemaker Corps
Delegations, training planned for Hebron, Iraq, Columbia, Asubpeeschoseewagong.
The Corporation: the pathological pursuit of power - Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan
Documentary coming to TVO, theatres, bookstores, the web.
MYOB canada (lower case intentional)
Irate reader tells SG to get out of US, go back where it came from.
Fun with Sue
Ahh... marriage...
Internet humour with Sue, SG's Editor of Fun.
