Posted: April 13, 2005

NEUTRAL MEDIA OBSERVERS? by Linda McQuaig
  Media should not be "cheerleading comforters".
 

WORLD FOOD CRISIS by Mae-Wan Ho, from the Institute of Science in Society (UK)
  Only organic, locally-grown food supplies are sustainable in an energy crisis.
 

HANDS ACROSS THE ALTARS statement by the Religious Coalition for Equal Marriage Rights
  Interfaith coalition releases statement in support of equal marriage.

SINGING FOR YOUR SUPPER: CULTURE AS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT by Paul Weinberg
  Is creativity a cure for the economic blues?
 

Communities, rights and change

TUMULT AT HRSDC by Reuel S Amdur
  Parliamentary Committee hears of arbitrary funding decisions for employment-skills services.
 

Canadian Politics

NEW WITNESS IN BC POLITICAL SCANDAL by Bill Tieleman
  Erik Bornman to testify against David Basi and Bob Virk.
 
 

AN "ETHICS ELECTION" by Aaron Freeman
  Liberals need to gear up for all-out campaign.
 

Workplaces

ORGANIZING BANK WORKERS by Mike Martin
  United Steelworkers of America organizing white-collar workers in Sudbury.
 

HONDA ORDERED TO PAY $500K FOR FIRING DISABLED WORKER by Paul Waldie, for the Globe & Mail, Toronto ON Canada
  Highest damage award ever follows carmaker's refusal to accommodate chronic fatigue.

IN PRAISE OF LESS WORK TIME by Buzz Hargrove
  Canadians work some of the longest hours in the industrialized world.
 

Consumers
PRESCRIBED TO DEATH CBC News Online
  Canada's seniors being hurt, killed by over-prescribed drugs.

Media files
MEDIA HALL OF SHAME from Free Press
  Vote in contest to decide who has done most damage to US news media.

World beat
THE MYTH OF PEOPLE POWER by John Laughland, for The Guardian
  The glamour of street protests should not blind us to the reality of US-backed coups in the former USSR.

BOTSWANA UNDERMINES BUSHMAN LAND CLAIMS by Miriam Ross, for Survival International
  Constitution changes would adversely affect indigenous peoples.
 

Hot headlines
VATICAN OVERLOOKS SCANDAL by Laurie Goodstein, for the New York Times, in Rome
  Cardinal Law, ousted for protecting sexually abusive priests, has role in choosing next pope.

WHAT THE POPE DID RIGHT by Gwynne Dyer
  John Paul II visited mosques, acknowledged Judaism as a true religion.
 

BC CANDIDATES COURT FIRST NATIONS VOTERS by Heather Ramsay, for thetyee.ca
  But one professor scorns voting at all, calling it a "high five to oppressors".

STUDENTS BACK WORKERS' RIGHTS by Susan Kinzie, for the Washington Post
  College demonstrations support campus workers' call for higher wages.

SWEET VICTORY: MONTANA ACTS PATRIOTIC by Katrina vanden Heuvel, for The Nation
  States, local governments condemn the USA Patriot Act.
 

CHINA'S POLITICAL TIDE TURNS from The Standard, China's business newspaper
  Government returns to emphasis on the collective good, not individual achievement.

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BULIMIA IS SLOW SUICIDE from Joyce Field, in Northern Ontario, Canada
  Doctors, parents, failed Terri Schiavo at every stage.