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Posted: June 14, 2005

Linda McQuaig
UNEQUAL HEALTHCARE
by Linda McQuaig
  Declining public healthcare system will serve only the poor.
 

Bruce Mirken
ECONOMISTS SAY: "LEGALIZE MARIJUANA"
by Bruce Mirken
  Instead of $7.7 billion prohibition expense, US could reap up to $6.2 billion in taxes.
 

Maggie Hughes
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.

Noreen Farooqui
CANADA REJECTS ROMA
by Noreen Farooqui
  Immigration rejects refugee claims for Hungarian minority group.
 

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Bill TielemanCanadian 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.
 

Inside Queen's ParkREUNITING FAMILIES Inside Queen's Park, Vol 18, No 11
  Fierce fights at Queen's Park over adoption disclosure, funding services for special needs children.

Mike MartinWorkplaces

GM MANOEUVRES by Mike Martin
  UW auto giant trying to slough off healthcare, pension costs.
 

Ron Robins
MORAL INVESTING
by Ron Robins
  Employers should offer employees workshops on ethical investing for their RRSPs.
 

Ole HendricksonWatershed 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.

Roger Currie

SCAM ALERT!
by Roger Currie
  Beware get-rich-quick pitches by email, phone, snail mail.
 
 
 

Antonia ZerbisiasMedia 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
Gwynne Dyer
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.

Naomi Klein
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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  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.

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GHOST CAR
  Who's doing the driving?
 

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