Posted: June 07, 2005

THUMPING CAPITALISM by Linda McQuaig
  Europeans reject working too hard.
 
 

SHARIA LAW A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT by Linda Silver Dranoff
  Arbitration could result in a spouse waiving her right to independent counsel.
 

SUPERVOTES FOR SOME SHAREHOLDERS from NUPGE and SEIU
  Different votes for different folks unfair: unions.

Labour Rites
CANADIAN LABOUR CONGRESS CONVENTION 2005 by John Baglow
  First contested election in a decade has union members talking about issues.
 

Canadian Politics

BC CABINET HORSERACE by Bill Tieleman
  Handicapping the winners and also-rans.
 
 

NO ONE IS ILLEGAL MARCH from Solidarity Across Borders
  Montreal committee organizes week of demonstrations to end deportations.

QUEBEC VOTES AGAINST SHARIA LAW by Alia Hogben
  Muslim women hail legislature's principled separation of religion and state.
 

Communities, rights and change

ONTARIO LEGAL AID SHORT- CHANGES FRENCH by Reuel S Amdur
  Neither French services nor travel funds available for Francophone client.
 

Workplaces
CORPORATE PROFITS UP, WAGES STAGNANT by Mike Martin
  Tax policies reinforce inequities but are not enough to remedy them.
 

Watershed ways

SAVE THE GENES by Ole Hendrickson
  Climate change threatens to extinguish our genetic heritage.
 
 

Consumers
LOW SUGAR DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN LOW CALORIE from CBC.ca science news
  Read "low sugar" labels carefully, dietitians advise.

Media files
TROUBLE AT THE OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT by Jim Hedger, StepForth News Editor, StepForth Placement Inc
  Volunteer efforts to build "definitive catalogue of the web" troubled by delays, charges of corruption.

UN FOOD FORCE GAME A VIDEO HIT from the UN News Service
  Youth vie to feed the most people in anti-famine game.

World beat
NON! VOTE WAS ANTI-ELITE by Murray Smith, for International Viewpoint online
  French referendum defeated by the Left.

Hot headlines
STUDY LINKS PAINKILLERS, BREAST CANCER by Philip Green, for Earth Times
  Women who used ibuprofen or aspirin daily were 20 to 50 percent more likely to develop breast cancer.

POLLUTION SOARS IN IRAQ from planetark.com
  Post-invasion damage includes looted nuclear site, sabotaged oil pipelines, smashed sewage systems.

ENDING POVERTY, PROMOTING DEVELOPMENT by Yifat Susskind, Associate Director, MADRE
  MADRE critiques the UN Millennium Development Goals.

SELL THE GOLD, FREE THE POOR by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
  Solve the third world debt crisis by selling off the International Monetary Fund's gold reserves.

EUROPE'S SECURE, WELL-PAID LEADERS HAVE CAUSED THE CRISIS by Robin Cook, for the Guardian
  The public must be convinced that the EU is a safeguard against globalisation.

Take action!
GROUPS TO OPPOSE NUCLEAR POWER from the Public Citizen website
  Public Citizen refutes claim that nuclear power is the only remedy for climate change.

SUPPORT MORGENTALER'S HONOURARY DOCTORATE from the Humanist Association of Canada
  University of Western Ontario under pressure to renege on honouring Henry Morgentaler.

Feedback from our readers
MORE LUCK O' THE IRISH... from Ian Weniger, unspecified email
  Here's a shorter version...

HAMILTON TREE SITTERS HEROES from Bob Hicks, Burlington ON
  They valiantly fought for our environment.

Humour
THE BURGLAR
  Thou shall not steal.