Posted: March 16, 2004
Updated: March 17, 2004

Is Chavez in US crosshairs? - Linda McQuaig
  Venezuela could well become another litmus test for Martin.
 

Workplaces
Redefining pensions - Mike Martin
  Air Canada and Stelco use courts to reduce payouts to retirees: labour movement on a collision course with corporations over pension issues.
 

Customs Union could have big political price, experts say - Paul Weinberg, Inter-Press Service
  "Nostalgia" drives Can-Am business strategy.

Commentary
Caregiving: the last step to equality - Beverley Smith
  If women can do anything they want, why can't they be at home with their kids?

Whither Kerry? - Hanns Skoutajan
  "To be or not to be" is the urgent question as US goes on campaign trail.
 
 

Your Health and Health Care
The Health Care Zombie rises again - Gordon Guyatt
  Discredited case for private health care keeps rising again and again to haunt health policy debates, with Stronach now cast as Dr. Frankenstein.

Consumer Forum
Beer is latest food to be hailed for osteoporosis prevention - Dominique Patton, NutraIngredients.com
  Readily bioavailable silicon may protect bones.

Communities, rights and change

Learning Disabilities Association is not afraid - Reuel S. Amdur
  Advocacy chill: charities wary of taking a stand.
 
 

Watershed Ways

The wind energy revolution - Ole Hendrickson
  Cheap, sustainable source of power for transportation, electricity needs to be tapped.

Inside Queen's Park
Royal pain for Ontario Grits - IQP
  McGuinty's first budget will be remembered above all for being delivered by a minister operating under a cloud.

Media Files
CAJ denounces Cameron's actions in passing information to police - Canadian Association of Journalists
  "Journalists must not be seen as proxy agents of the state."

Republican National Committee tells TV stations not to run anti-Bush ads - CNN.com
  MoveOn.org's lawyer calls it "a complete misrepresentation of the law."

Hot Headlines
Needs job, moves to India - CNN/Money
  As US jobs move abroad, more Americans are willing to move offshore themselves.

Spain won't overreact to terror attack the way the US did - Gwynne Dyer, Salt Lake Tribune
  Thirty-six years of dealing with ETA have taught maturity, patience and pragmatism.
 

Fix it or lose it - Roy MacGregor, the Globe and Mail
  Political leadership needed to end hockey violence.

Argentinean hardball - supportingfacts.com
  How a poor country can reduce its debt, infuriate big banks, and split the IMF.

Take Action!
Stop racist backlash in Canada - Disabled Women's Network Ontario
  Bill C-2 will treat as criminals those who watch Arabic language channels.

Reader Feedback
Shari'a law must not supercede secular law - Elka Enola