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Posted: September 06, 2006
 Canadian Politics
RACING AGAINST RALPH'S RECORD by Gillian Steward
Alberta Conservative leadership candidates all served in the Klein cabinet.
 THE GREENS' NEW LEADER by Boyce Richardson
Reviewing Elizabeth May's track record leaves doubts.
THE INVENTION OF MICHAEL IGNATIEFF by James Laxer
Somebody had to be the front-runner.
 COMMUNITY GROUPS ARE NEITHER LEFT NOR RIGHT by Ginette Petitpas-Taylor, Chairperson of the NB Advisory Council on the Status of Women
REAL Women's campaign misses the mark.
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 Science matters
TIME TO BAN BOTTOM TRAWLING by David Suzuki
Bottom trawling for fish is like fire-bombing a forest to hunt deer.
US election watch
 BLIND FAITH IN BAD LEADERS IS NOT PATRIOTISM transcript of speech by Rocky Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City Mayor's scathing attack on George Bush and US news media.
 Rez Solutions?
PROPERTY RIGHTS VS DEMOCRACY by Stewart Steinhauer
The Canadian Taxpayer Federation has no right to decide how Indigenous Peoples should own their land.
SIX NATIONS ARE THE REAL LANDLORDS by Hazel Hill
We are at the table, prepared to enter into a Nation to Nation dialogue. Is the Crown?
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Gordon's corner
THE END OF THE OTTAWA LYNX by Charles Gordon
Ottawans prefer doughnuts to baseball.
 Health matters
DOCTORS TURN AGAINST MEDICARE by Gordon Guyatt
CMA annual meeting passed resolutions in favour of private insurance.
HIV/AIDS, DRUGS AND FREE TRADE by Don Kossick, for makingthelinksradio.ca
Big Pharma blocks poor nations' access to antiretroviral drugs.
Faith speaks
TOWARD A CULTURE OF PEACE a statement from Canadian Yearly Meeting of Friends in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Quakers note with dismay a change in Canada's moral compass.
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RIGHT TO PLEASURE
Better known by the rubric "slow food", the International Movement for the Defense of and the Right to Pleasure officially came into being on November 9, 1989, at the Opera Comique in Paris. It now boasts more than 80,000 members in more than 100 countries around the world. Membership in local groups can be pricey, but the websites are full of good ideas and money-saving tips. The newly-established national website links to 18 "convivia" around Canada. Nutritious, local, slow food offers personal and environmental protection from frenzied commercialization and commodification of life's essential ingredients.
www.slowfood.ca
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Workplaces
NORDIA TO SHUT DOWN OCT. 4 from the United Steelworkers
411 call centre workers denied equitable severance.
Consumers
THE ROBIN HOOD TAX by Syd Baumel
New finance strategies help level the globalized playing field.
 Media files
CHUM SAYS BYE TO ITS OBLIGATIONS by Antonia Zerbisias, for the Toronto Star
Union charges that CHUM is reneging on CRTC requirements for local broadcasting.
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STEALING DEMOCRACY by Spencer Overton
Law professor shows how US voting laws are subject to manipulation.
TODAY'S PIG IS TOMORROW'S BACON by Greg Palast
Labour Day review of economic inequities.
CHARITIES AND POLITICS by Dean Beeby, for Maclean's magazine
Ottawa warned that unclear tax laws may open floodgates for charities to play politics.
Take action!
PROTEST SUDANESE ATTACKS ON CIVILIAN AREAS from Amnesty International
Amnesty calls for letters to stop forcible displacement.
Humour
SMALL TOWN JUSTICE from the Internet
You can run but you can't hide.
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