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Posted: December 07, 2005
SEA CHANGE by Linda McQuaig
Emissions simply don't respect borders.
NO FARMS, NO FOOD, NO FUTURE by Robbie Anderman
Farmers Union confronts Ottawa over farm income crisis.
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Health matters
DEPRESSION OVER-DIAGNOSED from Women and Health Protection
Widespread use of SSRI antidepressants drives soaring healthcare costs in Canada.
Editorial
 TIME TO DEAL WITH THE BUZZ PROBLEM by Ish Theilheimer and Mel Watkins
Labour and NDP must confront the rogue elephant in the living room.
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Rez Solutions?
IPPERWASHED INQUIRY by Stewart Steinhauer
Bad language haunts indigenous people.
 Faith speaks
ON TRIAL WITH CINDY SHEEHAN by Rose Marie Berger
What I did on the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials.
WORKERS' RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS from Interfaith Worker Justice
IWJ provides worship materials for Human Rights Day, Dec 10.
Communities, rights and change
FIXED DATE FOLLIES by Reuel S Amdur
The Liberals' fall illustrates the foolishness of mixing parliamentary government and fixed-date elections.
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A HYPOCRITICAL GAMBLE FOR BC by Bill Tieleman
Liberals promised to control gambling but have increased number of slot machine venues.
MUSLIM CANADIAN CONGRESS ENDORSES NDP from the Muslim Canadian Congress
MCC is impressed with what the NDP has accomplished and disappointed by the Liberals' record.
 PREDICTIONS, NOMINATIONS AND SHARPS from Inside Queen's Park, Vol 18, No 21
Ontario home to hosts of campaigns.
 Workplaces
CORPORATE ENEMY AWARD by Mike Martin
Workplaces creates a new category of business award.
PROTECTING HEALTHCARE WORKERS by Patty Rout
Unions and NDP seek new law on "sharps" in hospitals, nursing homes.
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TEN GIFTS TO AVOID by Jim Louderback, in PC Magazine
Technobumbles that won't inspire joy or gratitude.
 Media files
NEW WORLD WIDE WEB EMERGING by Jim Hedger, StepForth News Editor
Meet the new TV network.
World beat
 HAITIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS by Bill Quigley
World human rights leaders call for release of Pere Jean-Juste, Yvon Neptune and others.
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THE REAL SCOOP
The NDP have been receiving more media coverage this time around, but is it accurate? See for yourself at the NDP Canada website:
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 Hot headlines
AL-JAZEERA A TARGET by Robert Fisk, for the Independent UK
For all its flaws, upstart Arabic news channel delivers facts no one else will touch.
FIRST WOMAN GI RESISTER by Dianne Mathiowetz, for Workers World
Signed on for National Guard, 22-year-old announces she will not train for duty in Iraq.
TAMIFLU IS "USELESS" FOR AVIAN FLU from United Press International
Vietnamese doctor says medicine has no effect.
NARNIA EXAMINED by Polly Toynbee, for the Guardian
Movie represents all that is "most hateful about Christianity".
EMBARRASSED IN BERLIN by Luke Harding, for the Guardian
Europeans meet Condoleezza Rice with tough questions about secret prisons, "erroneous rendition".
Take action!
HELP SAVE CPT PEACE ACTIVISTS from Christian Peacemaker Teams, on Petition Spot
Sign petition in support of their safe return.
Feedback from our readers
BUZZ AND PAUL from Margie Fortune, Quispamsis NB
It made me sick!
Humour
BATHTUB TEST from the Internet
(... but not toilet humour.)
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