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Posted: May 10, 2006
Updated: May 15, 2006
TAX "RELIEF" COSTS TOO MUCH by Linda McQuaig
Harper blew chance to offer better public services.
 BUDGET BUYS HARPER TWO MORE YEARS by Geoffrey Stevens
New math: the West plus Quebec and half the Atlantic add up to make Ontario irrelevant.
US OIL ADDICTION COULD MAKE US SICK by Tony Clarke, Bruce Campbell and Gordon Laxer
Insatiable Americans are endangering our own energy security.
BUSH VS SCIENCE by Stephen Leahy
Scientists say they have been stifled or excluded from advisory committees by Bush administration.
 1970: FOUR DEAD IN OHIO by Mike Alewitz
Anti-war organizer remembers when US National Guard opened fire and killed four Kent State students.
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STRAIGHT GOODS TO HOST STRATEGIC SYMPOSIUM WITH GEORGE LAKOFF by Ish Theilheimer
US proponent of theory of political "re-framing" to keynote exclusive one-day September session.
Rez Solutions?
GRANITE SPEAKS compiled by SG staff
If you like Stewart's writing, you'll love his sculpture.
Faith speaks
EMBRACE US WAR RESISTERS by Yahya Abdul Rahman
People of conscience must support peace activists like Cindy Sheehan.
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 Canadian Politics
NEW BENNETT BOOK REVISITS TUMULTUOUS PAST by Bill Tieleman
Top bureaucrat recalls BC's tumultuous politics from 1975 to 1986.
 ONTARIO'S NUCLEAR GAMBLE by Marita Moll
New technology does not make nuclear power plants safer or cheaper.
FLOOR CROSSING'S DELICATE BALANCE by Aaron Freeman
Different MPs cross the floor for different reasons.
Communities, rights and change
 MORE REFUGEES IN SANCTUARY IN OTTAWA by Reuel S Amdur
Churches support would-be refugees while they appeal Immigration's decisions.
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PSAC'S NEW PRESIDENT by Mike Martin
A unionist since childhood, John Gordon has faced cutbacks before.
GROUNDBREAKING WORKERS' COMP CASE by Laura Vurma (with help from Rick Hamilton), OWA
Ontario Office of the Worker Adviser wins survivor benefits for same sex partner of miner who died in 1996.
Watershed ways
 SUPER-INSULATED HOMES by Lynn Jones
Imagine heating a two-bedroom home in the Ottawa area for $500 a winter!
 Media files
IDEOLOGY DRIVES WORKERS' RIGHTS CRITIC by James Clancy
NUPGE challenges accuracy of Financial Post columnist.
THE MOST SECRETIVE GOVERNMENT IN CANADA from the Canadian Association of Journalists
Ontario and federal governments running neck and neck for Code of Silence Award.
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WATCHING CALEDONIA
The Autonomy & Solidarity website offers videos right from the confrontation at Caledonia between Indigenous Peoples and local government, developers and townspeople. Jaqueline House talks about the 20,000 graves on the site and the threat of the Ku Klux Klan leading an attack on the protesters.
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THE UTILITY OF EUROSLAPS by Gwynne Dyer
EU grows from 15 to 27 member nations, while maintaining strict governance standards.
Hot headlines
SSRIs INCREASE SUICIDE RISK from CBC News
Study finds seniors nearly five times more likely to kill themselves in first month of treatment.
MOM'S JOB WORTH $134,000 from Salary.com
An analysis and valuation of a primary caregivers' tasks.
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Honour Mom by making a donation in her name.
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REMEMBERING JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH from Meyer Brownstone, Toronto ON
A Saskatchewan connection.
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