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Posted: June 14, 2005
UNEQUAL HEALTHCARE by Linda McQuaig
Declining public healthcare system will serve only the poor.
ECONOMISTS SAY: "LEGALIZE MARIJUANA" by Bruce Mirken
Instead of $7.7 billion prohibition expense, US could reap up to $6.2 billion in taxes.
HAMILTON SUES YOUNG PROTESTERS by Maggie Hughes
Sheila Copps vows to support seven youth facing $345 000 lawsuit.
LIFTING LOW-WAGE WORKERS from Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN)
CPRN offers plan to ease poverty for low-paid workers.
CANADA REJECTS ROMA by Noreen Farooqui
Immigration rejects refugee claims for Hungarian minority group.
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 Canadian Politics
INQUIRY NEEDED INTO VPD ACTIONS by Bill Tieleman
Vancouver Police Department errors include firing the detective who warned that a serial killer was preying on Downtown Eastside women.
 REUNITING FAMILIES Inside Queen's Park, Vol 18, No 11
Fierce fights at Queen's Park over adoption disclosure, funding services for special needs children.
 Workplaces
GM MANOEUVRES by Mike Martin
UW auto giant trying to slough off healthcare, pension costs.
MORAL INVESTING by Ron Robins
Employers should offer employees workshops on ethical investing for their RRSPs.
 Watershed ways
CANCER GAMBLE by Ole Hendrickson
National cancer strategy fails to address environmental causes.
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Consumers
LINK FOUND BETWEEN FOOD PACKAGING AND MISCARRIAGES by David Adam, science correspondent for The Guardian
Elevated bisphenol-A levels found in women with histories of miscarriages.
SCAM ALERT! by Roger Currie
Beware get-rich-quick pitches by email, phone, snail mail.
 Media files
POWER COUPLE DUCKS PROFILE by Antonia Zerbisias, for the Toronto Star
Writer Marci McDonald got a chilly reception for her profile of Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman.
World beat
DEJA VU IN LEBANON by Gwynne Dyer
Back to the quasi-democracy that ruled the country from 1943 to 1975.
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Hot headlines
DOSANJH STAYS TIGHT-LIPPED ON TRANSFER PAYMENTS by Gloria Galloway, with a report from Karen Howlett, for the Globe and Mail
Federal Health Minister says he might cut funds to provinces that allow private health care despite Supreme Court decision.
JUNK THIS SCIENCE by George Monbiot, for the Guardian Weekly
So-called "evidence" against climate change based on conspiracy theories, typographical error.
FEW CONVICTIONS ON US TERRORIST CHARGES by Dan Eggen and Julie Tate, Washington Post staff writers
Statistics often count lesser crimes.
CONSULTANTS POCKET $20 BILLION OF GLOBAL AID by Nick Mathiason, for The Observer
World Bank confirms that forty percent of global aid budgets goes to "technical assistance" and consultants.
LET AFRICA USE ITS OWN WEALTH by Naomi Klein, for The Guardian
Africa is a rich continent made poor by rapacious western corporations.
CHAVEZ BLAMES BUSH FOR BOLIVIA CRISIS from the New Zealand Herald
Bolivian president resigns in face of popular uprisings.
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PROTEST ENSLAVEMENT AND ROGUE LOGGING from Forests.org, a project of Ecological Internet Inc
Ask that Papua, New Guinea, sack its Forest Minister and expel the Malaysian timber companies.
BRING EQUAL MARRIAGE TO A VOTE! from Canadians for Equal Marriage
Tell Liberals to pass Bill C-38 before summer recess.
Feedback from our readers
BUDGET CUTTING LED TO SUPREME COURT DECISION from Richard Priestman, Kingston ON
Healthcare harmed by debt and deficit policies from 1977 to 1997.
Humour
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