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Posted: November 15, 2005
KHADR'S LEGAL RIGHTS by Linda McQuaig
Canada should insist rule of law applies even to unlikeable teen.
WE NEED AN AIDS VACCINE by Stephen Lewis
Attaining universal treatment of African AIDS patients by 2010 would break the back of the pandemic.
MYTH OF MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES by Kim Pate
US experience shows that the punitive approach backfires.
Faith speaks
PRISON IS A SIN by Ed Griffin, for Catholic New Times
Our prison system breaks up families, teaches crime, spreads disease and defrauds the taxpayer.
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Editorial
 HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE MINORITY GOVERNMENT by Ish Theilheimer
Canadians see good things happening and ask "what's not to like?"
 Rez Solutions?
THE COST OF ALBERTA'S SURPLUS by Stewart Steinhauer
Indigenous people never surrendered the mineral rights that have earned Alberta $78 billion since 1985.
Canadian Politics
 THE CRIMINAL ACT OF PAYDAY LENDING by Bill Tieleman
Fees, hidden costs boost effective interest rates to 15,000 percent and more.
 IMMIGRATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT from Inside Queen's Park Vol 18, No 20
Toronto Star columnist reads Environmental Commissioner's report as anti-immigration.
Communities, rights and change
 TORONTO'S WELFARE CHIEF CALLS FOR INCREASED BENEFITS by Reuel S Amdur
City Council asked to pressure province for higher social assistance payments.
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AIDS vaccine? Prison ills? Buy Nothing Day?
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RETENTION BONUSES by Mike Martin
Paying people to stay at their jobs is the wrong solution to a serious problem.
SAFETY TIME ON THE CLOCK from a statement of Joe Hansen, UFCW International President
US Supreme Court rules that employer must pay for workers' time in donning protective equipment.
Watershed ways
BURNING WOOD: WIZARDS OR FOOLS? by Ole Hendrickson
There's more to heating with wood than just throwing logs on a fire.
Consumers
BUY NOTHING DAY compiled by SG staff
Plan now to buy nothing on November 25.
Media files
"SHE" AND THE SILVER SCREEN by Sai Paranjpye, for Himalmag
Indian cinema has its own stereotypes of women.
World beat
AHMAD CHALABI — HE'S BA-A-ACK by Robert McMahon
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi in Washington for high-level meetings.
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"CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE"
Evolution vs creationism vs Flying Spaghetti Monster?
A new satirical element has entered the US debate about whether teachers must teach so-called "Intelligent Design" (modified creationism) alongside evolution. Concerned citizen Bobby Henderson is petitioning school boards to also teach "pastafarianism", the gospel according to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The Science Creative Quarterly at UBC is supporting this effort with a prize of 1000 packages of ramen noodles for the best evidence that the Flying Spaghetti Monster exists. You can buy FSM plush toys, video or decals, or download free stencils and screensavers. It's bizarre and it's snowballing! Check it out.
See: www.venganza.org
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Hot headlines
LIBERAL SCHADENFREUDE by William Rivers Pitt, for Truthout
Does feeling good about arch-conservative defeats make you a bad person?
 THE WOMEN BEHIND ARNOLD'S DEFEAT by Kathleen Sharp, Pacific News Service
California Nurses' Association orchestrated campaign that defeated the "Governator's" initiatives.
INTERVIEW WITH CATHARINE A MACKINNON from the Quebec feminist website, Sisyphe
Feminist legal pioneer says, "They haven't crushed me yet."
GOD'S PAT PROBLEM by John Nichols, for The Nation
TV preacher threatens God's wrath upon a town that rejects "intelligent design" in the classroom.
 FAKE MACHISMO PERMITS TORTURE by Molly Ivins, for Creators.com
White House may veto Senator John McCain's bill to prohibit torture for accused terrorists.
IRAQ'S HAZARDOUS WASTE A HEALTH RISK: UN from CBC news
Report pinpoints five "hot spots" near major cities.
Take action!
WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK! an initiative of two young Canadians
Two ten-year-olds lead campaign to recoup softwood lumber tariffs.
Feedback from our readers
LEFTISTS-WITH-VARIOUS-FAITHS from Jeffery Ewener, Toronto ON
We're all over the place.
Humour
A GOOD SAMARITAN from the internet
It's always appreciated.
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