Posted: March 11, 2009

THOSE POOR, PERSECUTED RICH PEOPLE by Linda McQuaig
  Obama's budget plan would shift more than $1 trillion US of the tax burden from the middle class onto high-income earners.
 
 

HOW HARPERITES ARE UNDERMINING PAY EQUITY by John Baglow
  Rather than being enshrined as a right, pay equity will be subject to negotiation.
 

AFGHAN FARMERS SWITCH FROM OPIUM TO CANNABIS by Ron Synovitz
  Afghanistan is now one of the biggest, if not the biggest, producer of cannabis in the world.
 

FRIGID POLAR REGIONS TEEMING WITH LIFE by Stephen Leahy
  Scientists have identified 7,500 animals in the Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic oceans.
 
 

Idiocracywatch
EVEN POLAR BEARS WANT JUSTICE by Jason Millar and Craig Berry
  Talk about balance is cheap when it's not your ice floe that's melting.

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Editorial

A PROMISING CHOICE FOR ONTARIO'S NDP by Ish Theilheimer
  And, justice issues shame Canada.
 
 

Science matters

DECRYPTING SCIENTIFIC REPORTS by David Suzuki, with Faisal Moola
  Science shows high degree of certainty that climate change is a threat.
 

MeanToons
EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE by John Meaney
  Of course, when you're hungry, relativity may seem irrelevant.

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Canadian Politics

JOHN TORY'S MISTAKE by Geoffrey Stevens
  Ontario Conservative leader forgot the #1 rule: Never take voters for granted.
 

CANADA SHOULD BAR OR PROSECUTE BUSH: LAWYER by Jeremy Klaszus
  Foreign Affairs stays silent on upcoming Calgary visit.
 
 

LIBERALS GET MESSAGE OUT AT ALL COSTS by Bill Tieleman
  Confidential documents show Libs spent $19 million on advertising before the election.
 
 

RebELLEs MAKING WAVES ACROSS CANADA by Elsie Hambrook
  New consciousness raising activities help women claim autonomy.
 

OIL AND GAS INCENTIVES DELIVER POOR RETURN by Diana Gibson and Ricardo Acuña
  Funds for health, schools would create more jobs.
 
 

Workplaces
MAKE EI SERVE WOMEN: YWCA from the YWCA
  As part-time workers, women are seldom able to claim benefits they've paid for.

OFL $5.5-BILLION PLAN AIMS TO HELP THOSE IN NEED AND BUILD FOR TOMORROW from the Ontario Federation of Labour
  Our province has to take bold action.

Consumers
REDUCE BOTTLED WATER USE, CITIES URGED from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities
  The Federation of Canadian Municipalities passes resolution favouring tap water whenever appropriate.

Media files
JON STEWART EVISCERATES CNBC from The Daily Show
  Comedian takes on smug, misleading cable business channel.

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Hot headlines

TIME FOR SOCIALISTS TO MAKE A PLAN by Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher Jr
  Capitalism may be dying, but it's taking the whole economy and planet with it.
 

TAKE OVER THE BANKS by Joseph E Stiglitz
  Nationalization is the only bail-out that really works.
 
 

Take action!
STOP THE ONTARIO NUCLEAR MONEY GRAB from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance
  Energy Minister poised to give nuclear industry a gigantic blank check.

Feedback from our readers
WHO IS GOING TO PAY THE CLEANUP BILL IF CSS FAILS 50 YEARS FROM NOW? by Pierre Champagne
  David Suzuki and Faisal Moola laid out some of the concerns about Carbon Capture and Sequestration.

Humour
EVERYONE'S IRISH ON MARCH 17TH from the Internet
  Happy St Patrick's Day.