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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.

Take action!
SUPPORT THE ZANON WORKERS' CO-OPERATIVE
  Sign the online petition, ask the Argentina government to recognize the Zanon workers' claim to their factory.

Feedback from our readers
KEEP PROTESTING! from Joe McGuire
  Next action: demonstrate against torture at Guantanamo Bay?