Posted: April 13, 2004

Workplaces
The skies are not falling at Air Canada - Mike Martin
  Unions are not to blame for latest crisis at Air Canada.

Wal-Mart facing its own democratic deficit - Mike Martin
  Workers in Jonquiere say no to union, voters in California say no to Wal-Mart's money.
 

Communities, rights and change
Poverty by postal code - DAWN Ontario
  United Way report documents dramatic increase in number of higher poverty neighbourhoods in Toronto.

Feds change the changes on Henson Trust - Reuel S. Amdur
  Roll-over now limited to "mentally infirm" beneficiaries, without clearly defining that term.
 

Inside Queen's Park
Speaking out against the speaker
  Big losers will be the government, whose legislative program gets derailed whenever battle erupts over parliamentary procedure.

Consumers
A nuclear future for Canada? - Colin Isaacs, The Gallon Environment Letter
  Manley's advice: commit to economically and environmentally moribund industry.

Grappling with mercury management - The Gallon Environment Letter
  Once released from stable deposits, mobilized mercury hangs around forever to haunt us.

Commentary
Rural revolutionaries and demagogues - Ish Theilheimer
  Conservative cuts led to many of the problems cited by populist protesters.
 

The CPP Investment Board now has an ethics advisor - whooppee! - Richard Sanders, Editor, Press for Conversion!
  Stellar CV includes connections to highly ethical tobacco, war products industries.

Hot headlines
O Canada, Oy Vey USA - David Morris, AlterNet
  Americans and Canadians think and act differently. And this difference has become more and more evident in recent months.

Never again? - Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, Genocide Watch
  Darfur, Sudan eerily like Rwandi ten years ago.

Unnoticed genocide in West Sudan - Washington Post
  Ethnic cleansing leaves tens of thousands dead.

Fallujah death toll for week more than 600 - Abdul-Qader Saadi, AP
  Residents bury bodies in soccer fields.

Poison and profits - Chris Thompson, East Bay Express
  High-tech manufacturer finds firing sick workers, offshoring their jobs a good way to escape regulatory woes.

SLAPPing the citizenry - Elizabeth Weir, rabble.ca
  Public criticism of a corporation can land you in court.
 

Our next "war" with America - Jay Currie, TheTyee.ca
  Will our politicians change Canada's Copyright Act to please US mega-music industry?

Now it is America that desperately needs rescuing - Martin Woollacott, The Guardian
  The limits of raw military power are being learned again in Iraq.

Condi gets a reality check - David J. Sirota and Christy Harvey and Judd Legum, Center for American Progress
  A point-by-point analysis of the errors, evasions and omissions in Condoleezza Rice's testimony in front of the 9/11 commission.

Lies a sixth grader would not accept - Michael C. Ruppert, FTW
  Condoleezza Rice hangs herself - discrepancies so easy to prove, even network news might notice the story.

Mystery blood clots felling US troops - Mark Benjamin, UPI
  Families, civilian doctors blame mandatory anthrax, smallpox vaccines.

Forbes Magazine finds new vein of money to mine if gay marriage legal
  Same-sex marriage windfall in US would be $16.8 billion.

Empty field of dreams - Brian Schecte, TheTyee.ca
  After a spectacular strikeout, why you won't see the Canadian Baseball League this spring.

Bush's back-door political machine - Jerry Landay, AlterNet
  Exploring the tax-exempt twilight zone of campaign and IRS regulations.

America's pregnancy police - Lynn M. Paltrow, Alternet
  The Unborn Victims of Violence Act poses the greatest danger not to women seeking abortions, but to pregnant women who want to have their babies.

Wrong answer in Sri Lanka - Gwynne Dyer, tehrantimes.com
  After election, ceasefire at risk, and "Sri Lankans do kill one another over politics rather a lot."
 

Take action!
A call for solidarity with Iraqi people - International Occupation Watch Center
  Civilian communities under siege, in contravention of the Geneva Convention.

Humour
You know you live in Toronto when...
  Twenty tell-tale signs.