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Posted: January 04, 2006
POVERTY BREEDS CRIME by Linda McQuaig
Is there a link between Yonge Street shootings and Mike Harris' 1995 welfare cuts?
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE by David MacGregor
The fight to end mandatory retirement policies.
THE ELECTION HEATS UP by Marc Zwelling
We're finally heading into the play-off season.
THE POLITICS OF POVERTY by Dennis Raphael
How Canada can achieve its perennial resolution to end child poverty.
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BEWARE OF FUTURISTS AND PLAY-IT-SAFE STRATEGIES by Ish Theilheimer
Let's celebrate social change.
Rez Solutions?
THE INVISIBLE HAND by Stewart Steinhauer
Why economics don't benefit Indigenous peoples.
Faith speaks
YOU MIGHT BE A PAGAN IF... by Athenascribe
Some of those personal quirks might actually indicate affinity for the Old Faith.
 Canadian Politics
FEDERAL GREEN PARTY BOUNCES BC CANDIDATE by Bill Tieleman
Greens face several problems in BC campaign.
Communities, rights and change
 P3 BLUES IN OTTAWA by Reuel S Amdur
Public-private partnerships obscure the crucial question of who's in charge.
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AND THE WINNER IS... by Mike Martin
Meet Workplaces' inaugural Corporate Enemy Award winner.
Consumers
EMAIL SCAMS by Michael Cowley-Owen
New messages look authentic, but still hide the same old sting.
DITCH THE CELL, KEEP THE NUMBER from John Lawford, at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC)
CRTC rules that consumers can keep the same mobile phone number even if they change service provider.
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BEHIND "SYRIANA" by Rob Williams
Hollywood gloss reveals global oil realpolitik.
World beat
BOLIVIA: RACE AND REVOLUTION by Gwynne Dyer
Evo Morales may change South America's poorest country beyond recognition.
ARRESTED FOR ELECTION QUESTION by Yves Engler
Throwing confetti at campaign rally lands activist in jail.
RECONSTRUCTION WORSE THAN DISASTER by Miriam Ross, for Survival International
Andaman tribes who survived tsunami "may be wiped out."
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THE YEAR IN PICTURES
Most photo arrays of 2005 are grisly and depressing, blood drenched and tearful. Take a look at the NY Times or Time Magazine if you like. As the saying goes, "If it bleeds, it leads." The MSNBC site, however, gives you a choice. After the heart-wrenching Editors' Choice slide show, you can move on to the Reader's Choice photos, while still artistic and dramatic, include some uplifting natural images and amusing animal shots.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10467269
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THE YEAR IN REVIEW by the Editors of Sevenoaks Magazine
Seven highlights from 2005.
YUKON SCHOOL GROUP FOUND ON US THREAT LIST from CBC news
Catholic high school students labelled by participation in anti-missile protest.
RUMSFELD VERSUS THE MILITARY by Ralph Nader
Pentagon fights back against invasion, cronyism.
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Canada's "Divide and Conquer" media practices actually breed Separatism.
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