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Posted: September 13, 2005
US TURNING POINT? by Linda McQuaig
American Right may have met its match in hurricane crisis.
 Faith speaks
WHAT THE WATERS HAVE REVEALED by Jim Wallis, for Sojourners
Katrina has unveiled an invisible and almost silent poverty that we have chosen not to talk about.
CanCult
WRITERS' UNION: END LOCK-OUT from Writers' Union staff
CBC lock-out hurts book promotion across Canada, writers say.
Editorial
WILL HIGH OIL PRICES SPAWN NEW THINKING? by Ish Theilheimer
Apparent end of cheap oil underlines need for rural transportation options.
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Canadian Politics
ONTARIO RETREATS ON SHARIA LAW a compendium of news from various campaigns against permitting Sharia law under Ontario's Arbitration Act
Attorney General responds to worldwide campaign.
TRANSIT GUN PLAN DRAWS FIRE by Charlie Smith, the Georgia Straight
Vancouver special constables request firearms for enforcement.
LCBO PROFITS, TVO REFLECTS from Inside Queen's Park Vol 18, No 16
LCBO Chair defends publicly-owned stores; Hugh Segal mulls Big Blue Machine.
 Workplaces
UNIONS ARE STILL OUR BEST HOPE by John Jacobs, Nova Scotia CCPA
Unions are ahead of the corporate curve on issues like sustainability and human rights.
Rez Solutions?
LAND USE POLICIES by Stewart Steinhauer
There is enough for everyone, if we remember how to share.
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Turning point? Oil shock? Microsoft vs Google? Charity checks?
Express your views on these and other items in the Straight Goods Forum.
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 Watershed ways
WARS OVER WETLANDS by Ole Hendrickson
Wetlands have ecological value far greater than their real estate valuation.
Consumers
CHARITY CHECKS Consumer Reports
Make sure your donations for Hurricane Katrina relief get to the right place.
GREEN DOT RECYCLING PROGRAM by Andy Telfer
German manufacturers put green dot on package to show they've paid for recycling.
Media files
VIOLENCE AGAINST JOURNALISTS IN NEW ORLEANS from democracynow.org
FEMA, National Guard, try to restrict reporters, sometimes at gunpoint.
BUSH DEFLECTING BLAME from MediaMatters
White House says state, city governments should have handled Katrina's effects better.
World beat
GLOBAL DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST ONTARIO LAW from english.aljazeera.net
Muslims fear Canadian precedent will spread to Europe.
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POWER, WATER, BRIDGES, ROADS
Canada's Emergency Preparedness plan has a few surprises.
Canadians depend on complex infrastructure to provide essential services. Physical and computer-based infrastructure provides essential energy, transportation, and communications as well as safety, financial, health and emergency response services... Only a small portion of this National Critical Infrastructure is publicly owned... About 85 percent is controlled by private industry and other non-government organizations... Much of both regional and national critical infrastructure is international. Pipelines and highways do not stop at borders, cables vital to information technology services are buried deep on ocean floor beds. This means that international co-operation is also an important component, particularly with our US partners...
www.ocipep.gc.ca/critical/nciap/synopsis_e.asp
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Hot headlines
FEMA BOOSTS PAT ROBERTSON by Juan Gonzalez, for the New York Daily News
Federal Emergency Management Agency website recommends evangelist's charity.
ESCAPE FROM NEW ORLEANS by Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky
Two paramedics stranded in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina give their account of self-organization and abandonment in the disaster zone.
FEMA IN 1995 by Daniel Franklin, in the Washington Monthly
Bill Clinton's administration made FEMA lean, professional, efficient.
SOME GOOD NEWS by Gwynne Dyer
Glimmers of peace from around the world.
MICROSOFT CEO VOWS TO "KILL" GOOGLE by Ina Fried
Technology megafirms go head to head.
LOOTING EXAGGERATED? by Christopher Shea, in Ideas biweekly
Sociologists questions how much mayhem really took place in New Orleans.
Take action!
PREPARE FOR SEPT 24 PEACE MARCHES from the Canadian Peace Alliance
Canadian Peace Alliance calls for pan-Canadian day of action.
Feedback from our readers
HOW IT REALLY IS HERE IN CANADA from AHTumbleweed, unspecified email
The working experience of the older un- and under-employed.
Humour
THE LAWNS OF GOD
Nobody knows why we do it...
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