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- Linda McQuaig
  Uncooperative voters make both Martin and Harper sing the embittered entitlement blues.
 

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Stop the (anti-missile) madness! - Reuel S. Amdur
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Mike Martin
Everything I needed to know...
- Mike Martin
  First summer job taught work world fundamentals.
 
 

Aaron FreemanCanadian politics

Election a lesson in fundraising loopholes - Aaron Freeman
  Donors still finding ways to get around the rules.
 

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Connect the DOTS - Bob Cowie, MD and Bob Dickson, MD
  TB is staging a comeback, but for the price of a few missiles, we could once again reverse the trend.
 

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Lynn Jones
Whatever happened to global warming?
- Lynn Jones
  Human-caused global changes encompass complex, unpredictable forces.
 
 

Clear the air - Gallon Environment Letter
  Environment Canada reports on 2003 anti-smog initiatives.

Consumers
Memory slip
  Hewlett-Packard offers to replace memory chip in 900,000 laptops.

Gwynne DyerHot headlines
Buying Cuban exiles gets tricky - Gwynne Dyer, Jordan Times
  New Cuba rules have less to do with democracy-building in Havana than with vote-counting in Miami.
 

Selling death - Rory O'Neill
  Canadian government funds asbestos industry lobby group, leads campaign to keep selling lethal asbestos abroad.

High and low - Adrienne Mand, ABC News
  US study finds gender wage gap persistent, especially in best-paid and worst-paid jobs.

America has sown the seeds of civil war in Iraq - Sami Ramadani, The Guardian
  It's not religious rivalry but the puppet regime that threatens stability.

Spoils of war - Naomi Klein, the Guardian
  Reconstruction mismanagement, corruption breed Iraqi insurgents.

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Jane Goodall's vision for UN Peace Day - Jane Goodall Institute
  Get ready to fly: giant peace doves take off September 21.

Feedback from our readers
The federal election scare - Dan Singer
  Strange hauntings, the debate and NDP disappointment.

Heartsick - Charles R. St. James
  American examines US role in Iraq, Afghanistan, elsewhere.

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