Posted: April 27, 2004

What price vision? - Penney Kome
  Age-related macular degeneration not always covered, expensive to treat - especially when relying on private clinics.
 

Money trumps politics in hockey, too - Mel Watkins
  Deconstructing sports rivalries - if Ottawa wants hope, it needs to change the team name to Lobbyists.

SRI reports - news on Socially Responsible Investment
Are "socially responsible" corporations really that virtuous? - Mark Brownlie
  And how are the winners of these "corporate beauty contests" chosen?

Climate change and investment risk - Social Investment Organization
  Report recommends reforms to protect against global warming investment risks.

Workplaces
Canadian IT Industry recovering but jobs going overseas - Mike Martin
  75,000 jobs headed to India, China, Russia - how many will Nortel ship?

Quest for termination pay leads to bad references - Name withheld
  Is my only recourse taking them to court?

Canadian politics
Replacing Agostino in Hamilton - Inside Queen's Park
  A lot is riding on this by-election for the third party.

NDP battles Green Party for votes - Steven Chase, The Globe and Mail
  Proportional representation would give smaller parties more seats.

Commentary
A Tibetan Lesson - Hanns Skoutajan
  No political leader should shrink from open discussion about the problems of the world, human rights, and peace.
 

Rural rage in the Age of Corporate Dominance - Ish Theilheimer
  Do we need rural communities? Talking heads and policy wonks say no.
 

Linda McQuaig is taking time off from column-writing to finish a new book, due out in September. Her column returns May 10.
 

Your health and health care
Health care still Canadian's number one issue - Gordon Guyatt, MD
  But despite expanding economy, Martin leaves health care still begging for scraps.

Romanow plus one - Maude Barlow
  Privatized medicine inroads, lack of funding leave Canadians to wonder - what happened?
 
 

Consumers
"Are you guys against toilet paper now?"
  Recycled vs. virgin: Greenpeace challenges consumers to take the test.

Conservation and renewable energy for the little guy - Ole Hendrickson
  Large, centralized power plants contain the germ of their own destruction.

Communities, rights and change
Birth rate drops again - Reuel S. Amdur
  Compulsory retirement, immigration policy, medical and related costs: some birth rate-related issues our aging population needs to face.

Watershed ways

Let's generate some negawatts - Lynn Jones
  Negawatt: a unit in watts of energy saved.
 
 

Hot headlines
Cyprus freezing Turkey out - Gwynne Dyer, Gulf Daily News
  Will join EU May 1, with or without reunification, likely as EU's first police state.
 

US sanitizes stain of death - Tim Harper, Toronto Star
  Woman loses job after photos of soldiers' coffins published in local paper.

Time line: path to pandemonium - Stan Goff, FTW
  The waste of life and limb in America's latest Iraq War has been escalating wildly under Paul Bremer's watch.

Survivors of Bhopal win Goldman Environmental Prize - Greenpeace International
  Two women led struggle for justice after world's worst environmental disaster, in 1984.

Rape, torture, and one million forced to flee as Sudan's crisis unfolds - Declan Walsh, the Independent
  Will we move to stop it?

From our readers
Regulations, infrastructure complicate and raise the price of the simple life - Mike Cassidy, Lanark Highlands
  Rural residents face real and growing problem.

Risky business using "no name" bank machines - Andrea Curtis
  No security features, no recourse.

Shari'a: a threat to the Canadian society - Elka Enola
  What is the real purpose of the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice?