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Linda McQuaigBlack out - Linda McQuaig
  Hollinger may get a piece of his hide, but Canadians have Conrad to thank for billions lost in tax cuts to the rich.
 

Winners after all - Guy Dauncey and Bill Briner
  Per capita or per GDP, Canada did better at the Olympics than the sportscasters said.

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Ten year itch - Mike Martin
  Civil servants' strike cycle portends falling government.
 
 

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Communities, rights and change
Burnout - Reuel S. Amdur
  Quebec teachers voting with their feet.

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The lottery
- Reuel S. Amdur
  Are Quebec's public meetings just fronts for pre-decided policies?
 
 

Penney KomeEditorial
Is that the cavalry? - Penney Kome
  Some major news media are finally applying strict scrutiny to the President's statements.
 

Watershed ways
Ole Hendrickson
More than a pretty view
- Ole Hendrickson
  Across the globe, some landscapes have cultural, spiritual significance.
 
 

Media Files
Most censored
  Project Censored releases list of most-censored stories in 2003/2004.

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Precautionary? - BBC News
  Radiation from CT scans compared to exposure at Hiroshima.

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US election watch
Poll watching - Michael Kieschnick, Working Assets
  Volunteers sought to ensure that all eligible voters can cast their ballots.

Feel the hate - Paul Krugman, New York Times
  Republican convention celebrated rage and hate to cover guilty conscience.

Hot headlines
Our dead and injured children - Ahmed Zakaev, The Guardian
  Chechen leader analyzes the chain of events behind the Beslan school siege.

The Grinch that stole Labour Day - Greg Palast
  Bush administration slashes employers' duty to pay overtime.

Murder in the cathedral - Andrew Buncombe, The Independent
  California court hears charges in the 1980 El Salvador assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero.

Acceptable horror - Marcela Sanchez, Washington Post
  US welcomes men who committed terrorism in Cuba.

Off the economic grid - Kevin Spurgaitis
  Home sweatshop workers invisible to labour standards enforcers.

Incredible, eh? - Molly Ivins, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  American writer finds it hard to explain to Canadians that George Bush could be re-elected.

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China: dissent at the top
- Gwynne Dyer, Daily Herald-Tribune
  Public mention of Tienamen Square may herald change.
 
 

Shortages loom - Geoffrey Lean, The Independent
  World food supplies at all-time low; water, energy depleted too.

The Czars failed, too - Radio Netherlands
  Renowned peace activist Johann Galtung analyses the tragic school massacre at Beslan.

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Save the Frost! - Shirley McCormick, Operation Perma-Frost
  Ontarians rally to save Muskoka-area Leslie M Frost Natural Resources Centre.

Celebrating peace - We, the World
  Join international eleven-day event advocating global unity and sustainability.

Feedback from our readers
Greasing the wheels - dfc
  Conservatives, oil money call the shots with Alberta media.

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Corpspeak
  How to succeed in business without really crying.
 


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