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Posted: August 09, 2006
HISTORY LESSON FOR HARPER by Linda McQuaig
Our governments have usually tried to be fair.
ANATOMY OF A HEAT WAVE by Cathy Crowe, RN
People die of exposure to heat as well as to cold.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY by Miriam Ross
Canada voted against UN's Human Rights Council declaration.
 Faith speaks
JAILED FOR BOMB RESISTANCE by Bill Quigley
Protesters try to disarm weapon of mass destruction.
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 Canadian Politics
HARPER FOLLOWING BUSH INTO DISASTER by Bill Tieleman
More than half of Canadians want our troops out of Afghanistan.
CANADA'S PEACEKEEPING TRADITION IN JEOPARDY from the World Federalists Movement
Former Trudeau Justice Minister calls for return to full funding.
Communities, rights and change
OTTAWA'S 211 FIASCO by Reuel S Amdur
New information hotline plan omits key agency.
 The "Best of" Workplaces
MORE JOBS, JOBS, JOBS by Mike Martin
Five more suggestions for creating jobs — and how to pay for them.
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Consumers
RFID CHIPS EASY TO CLONE by Joris Evers and Declan McCullagh, staff writers, CNET News
Researchers say that E-passports pose security risk.
Hot headlines
POLLS SHOW AMERICANS TURNING AGAINST GOVERNMENT by Thomas Hargrove and Guido H Stempel III, for Scripps Howard News Service
Anti-government anger spawns 9/11 conspiracy belief.
THE COST OF BEING POOR by Barbara Ehrenreich
"Ghetto tax" means that services, loans cost more for low-income people.
 MEXICAN ELECTION STILL CONTENTIOUS by Greg Palast, for The Guardian
At least paper ballots allow the possibility of a recount.
MILITARY WASTE IN US DRINKING WATER by Sunaura Taylor and Astra Taylor, AlterNet
The most widespread industrial contaminant in US drinking water is a solvent used to clean aircraft at military bases.
Humour
TWO POTS from the Internet
A proverb for all of us.
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SIDEWALK ILLUSIONS
UK artist Julian Beever has earned a reputation for his startling 3-D chalk sidewalk drawings. Click on a thumbnail here and see the artist about to dive off a plank into a waterfall-fed pool; or see him perched on a window ledge awaiting Batman and Robin, who are climbing up a burning apartment building to rescue him. See the Make Poverty History globe pop up from the ground. Dazzling stuff and all in good fun.
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