Posted: November 30, 2004

PEACE ON EARTH OR WAR FROM SPACE? by Linda McQuaig
  Canada should stay at the UN disarmament table, defending ban on WMDs in space.
 

WORLD AIDS DAY by Paul Weinberg, IPS
  Profits delay cheap Canadian drugs.

NEW UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FORMING by Penney Kome
  Volunteers helping dissidents run north to find home.
 
 

CHILD POVERTY INCREASES from Campaign 2000
  Poor jobs are the main cause of child poverty in Canada: CLC.
 

Workplaces

TRUCKERS' VOICE by Mike Martin
  New independent truckers' association challenges power of Northern Ontario lumber mills.
 

Communities, rights and change

BENEFITS LOST IN RED TAPE by Reuel S Amdur
  Wins Ontario ruling, but retroactive benefits withheld while client is in jail.
 

MUSLIM WOMEN IN CANADA from the Canadian Council of Muslim Women
  Overeducated and underemployed.
 

Canadian politics
ONTARIO ELECTORAL REFORM from Inside Queen's Park
  Liberals' promises on financing, voting reform may have far-reaching consequences.

BC PRE-ELECTION PROPAGANDA by Bill Tieleman, The Georgia Straight
  Provincial government survey on how to spend the surplus omits key facts.
 
 

CHANGING THE PROSPECTING RULES by Robert McPherson
  The Inuit altered the generations-old policy of "free entry" when they became the government of Nunavut.

Your health and health care
BUILDING A MEDICAL WIKIPEDIA by Gordon Guyatt MD
  But Canada withdraws funding from worldwide "Cochrane Collaboration" designed to determine best treatments.
 

Consumers
MOVE OVER, EXPLORER! by Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News
  Mozilla's open source Firefox taking IE market share.

SPONGEBOB SHILLS FOR JUNK FOOD from the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
  Movie "essentially a ninety minute commercial for junk food."
 

Media files
FEWER WEB SEARCHES FOR SEX by Karen Hoffman, University of Pittsburgh
  IT professors find sex-related searches down by about half since 1997, business searches up by 86%.

World beat
BOLIVIANS TAKE ON BIG OIL by Will Braun
  Campesinos who defeated water privatization at Cochabamba turn their sight to nationalizing oil and gas deposits.

THE ARABS OF ISRAEL by Am Johal
  Citizens without citizenship.
 
 
 

Hot web rumour
DID BUSH PAY HACKERS $29 MILLION? by Wayne Madsen, Online Journal
  Investigative journalist says that Saudis, Enron money helped pay to rig US election.

Hot headlines
UKRAINE COVERAGE BIASED by John Laughland, The Guardian
  Western media favour pro-Western Yushchenko, who is also linked to anti-semitic neo-nazis.

MONEY FOR IMMUNITY by Julian Borger, Irish Times
  US threatens to withhold aid funds unless nations promise it immunity from the ICC.

NO $ FOR NUKES: CONGRESS by Michael Kilian, Chicago Tribune, with other links
  Arms control activists hail Bush setback.

SOUNDS LIKE ABUSE PATTERNS by Mel Gilles, mathewgross.com
  Neocon rhetoric rings familiar bells to the ears of a front-line worker with survivors of domestic abuse.

Take action!
DETAINED IN CANADA FOR "SUSPICIOUS" READING MATERIAL from the Committee to Free Mahmoud Namini
  44-year-old Iranian refugee and Dutch citizen jailed since Oct 27 for carrying book about Iranian uprising.

Feedback from our readers
GREAT PIECE ON THINK TANKS by Lily Enhancin
  Further examples of how big business fights back against "too much democracy".