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Posted: December 14, 2004
IF WEALTH WAS HEIGHT by Linda McQuaig
Recent and proposed tax changes leave wealthiest Canadians miles above the rest of us.
HYPING TERROR FOR PROFIT AND POWER by Thom Hartmann
BBC documentary says that Cheney and Rumsfeld extended the Cold War in the 1970s with same fearmongering techniques they used to justify 2003 attack on Iraq.
CANADIANS FAVOUR EQUAL MARRIAGE from EGALE Canada
Calls from some MPs to use Notwithstanding clause are out of step with public values.
WOMEN WANT THEIR MONEY BACK from the National Association of Women and the Law
On Human Rights Day, women's groups call for governments to repay $80 million in pay equity award.
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Communities, rights and change
ANOTHER WELFARE "REFORM" by Reuel S Amdur
Ontario Liberals' welfare review needs to make process simpler, not more convoluted.
 Workplaces
ECONOMIC DRAGON by Mike Martin
China's economic progress seems unstoppable.
Consumers
CANADA POST'S FUEL SURCHARGE by Penney Kome
On December 6, the rate quietly went up to five percent of the postage cost.
Your health and health care
BLOCK FEES UNDERMINE HEALTH CARE ACCESS by Irfan Dhalla and Gordon Guyatt, Medical Reform Group
Doctors' group calls on government to ban patient charges.
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Watershed ways
THE ONE-TONNE CHALLENGE by Janet MacNeil
Government asks each of us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by twenty percent.
 Commentary
A QUESTION OF FAITH by Hanns Skoutajan
Church is more than a place to get married.
Canadian politics
HAMILTON SUES CANADA from the Friends of Red Hill Valley
An unprecedented assault on Canadian environmental law and activism.
THE URBAN REZ by Jim Silver, Canadian Dimension
Community development in Winnipeg's inner city
Media files
BILL MOYERS RETIRING AFTER DEC 17 SHOW by Frazier Moore, AP via Commondreams.org
Last appearance as host of NOW to critique how right-wing media have become branch of Republican party.
US MEDIA HIDING BAD NEWS FROM THE PUBLIC by Antonia Zerbisias, Toronto Star
TV anchors try to "balance" frontline accounts of Iraqi conflict with more optimistic analyses.
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World beat
TREES FOR DEMOCRACY by Wangari Maathai
New Nobel Peace Prize winner explains how planting trees preserves the peace and empowers local people.
TEN PERTINENT FACTS ABOUT THE UNITED NATIONS OIL-FOR-FOOD SCANDAL by Michael Pan
Kofi Annan is not responsible for poorly-organized, poorly run program.
US election watch
20 AMAZING ASSERTIONS ABOUT US VOTING by Anonymous
No paper trail, no national oversight, and privatized ballot counting - why aren't more people alarmed?
Hot headlines
HOLY OPPOSED TO ENVIRONMENTALISTS by Glenn Scherer, Grist Magazine
Rapturists welcome environmental degradation as portent of Second Coming.
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Feedback from our readers
KEEP PROTESTING! from Joe McGuire
Next action: demonstrate against torture at Guantanamo Bay?
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