Your health and healthcare
Mystery theatre - Gordon Guyatt, MD
Martin attacks provinces, but where does he really stand on saving medicare?
Consumers
Anti- bacterial or pesticide? - M. Angela McGhee, PhD, Organic Natural Health
Active ingredient in many anti-bacterial soaps and detergents can be hazardous to health, environment.
Safeguards save lives - Citizens for Sensible Safeguards
Deregulation costs money, health, lives, group says.
Catch of the day - the fishlist.org
Select seafood from sustainable stocks.
One person's trash... - Michelle Nijhuis, Grist Magazine
"Freecycling" groups find owners and purposes for unwanted household goods.
Media files
Peer-to-Peer perilous - Dylan Kome
Downloading music invites spyware, computer viruses.
Mirror, mirror - Kathleen O'Grady
All 36 on CanWest's election coverage team are white.
Hot headlines
Decreasing body counts - Gwynne Dyer, journalnow.com
Though African civil strife is deadly, there are fewer conflicts than 20 years ago.
Land claims - Alun Anderson, New Scientist
Interview with scholar who trained Amazon tribe in GPS technology to fend off illegal logging.
Forgotten lessons - Kurt Vonnegut, In These Times
Literary lion reviews lessons of history, philosophy, religion.
Flunking life - Anya Kamenetz, the Village Voice
Grad school provides exciting new road to poverty.
Gullible - Alec Russell, the Telegraph
Chalabi duped us on WMD, says New York Times.
The Day After Tomorrow? Pentagon said it is possible - Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall, US Defense Department commissioned report
Once greenhouse gases reach a certain threshold, change could come very quickly.
Bad advice - Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Doctor outraged by glossy eating guide that recommends tuna for pregnant women, despite mercury hazard.
Take action!
Rock against Bush - Penney Kome
Punk rock CD funds anti-Bush election push.
Boycott the USA
Victoria Peace Coalition calls for embargo until US corrects its foreign policies.
Growing green homes - Jennifer Penney, Green Affordable Housing
How to ensure that affordable housing is also sustainable housing.
Get it in writing!
Canadian Health Coalition offers election action kit.
Open the border - June Callwood, David Suzuki, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Shirley Douglas, Anne-Marie MacDonald and M.G. Vassanji
Sign petition to give US war resisters safe haven in Canada.
Humour
Take off, eh?
Where there's smoke, there are flyers.
Feedback from our readers
School bus safety - Sandra (Ennis) Nunn
If 4-year-old Allyceea had been in a safety seat, she might still be alive.
