Posted: January 27, 2010

POPULISM MASKS ELITISTS by Linda McQuaig
  Nothing could be less populist than the right's agenda.
 
 

HUGE ANTI-PROROGATION RALLY SHOWS POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA by Laura Osman
  Thousands turn out in Ottawa cold to demand government get "back to work".
 

CALGARIANS AGAINST PROROGATION by Penney Kome
  Hundreds join protest outside Stephen Harper's constituency office.
 
 

HELP HAITI HELP ITSELF from the Canadian Council for International Co-operation and others
  NGOs urge foreign ministers to help Haiti rebuild civil society.

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Editorial
HAITIAN REALITIES CONTRAST WITH STEREOTYPES by Ish Theilheimer
  Jean Saint-Vil: Canada should own up to hosting 2003 summit to plot Aristide's overthrow.
 

Gordon's corner


PROTEST ONLINE by Charles Gordon
  Does it equal more than a warm feeling?
 
 

Science matters
MONEY AND MOTHER EARTH by David Suzuki, with Faisal Moola
  Climate change is a symptom of economic madness.
 

MeanToons
HARD DELIVERY
  The paper isn't the paper any more.

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Canadian Politics
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS FOR THE OPPOSITION by Geoffrey Stevens
  Liberals, NDP and BQ could keep issues alive with hearings, daily press conferences.
 

PREVENTABLE TRAGEDIES by Elsie Hambrook
  Unwanted infants at risk for infanticide, abandonment.
 
 

FROM PUBLIC WATCHDOG TO POTENTIAL LAPDOG by Bill Tieleman
  David Loukidelis wrong to jump to deputy AG.
 
 

AVOIDING AN OLYMPICS HANGOVER by Marc Lee
  Green jobs can save BC's economy after the Olympics bump returns to a slump.
 
 

Media files
CRTC REVIEWING $100 MILLION "COMMUNITY MEDIA" FUND by Steve Anderson
  Media activists lobbying for return of community-participation channels on cable TV.
 

Workplaces

CALL FOR NOVA SCOTIA WORKERS TO SPEAK UP from the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union
  Province begins budget consultation meetings across province that could threaten public jobs.
 

Consumers
CONSUMERS LEFT OUT IN THE CODE from the Public Interest Advocacy Centre
  Changes to credit and debit card policies could cost consumers more.

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USA Watch
AMERICAN CAMPAIGN TO LIMIT CORPORATIONS from Freespeechforpeople.org
  Supreme Court decision triggers movement for new Constitutional amendment.

World beat
PROBLEMS LOOM WITH UPCOMING IRAQ ELECTION from Radio Free Europe
  Tensions mount over plans to ban some candidates.

Hot headlines

GEORGE LAKOFF ON OBAMA AND THE WAY FORWARD by George Lakoff
  The conservatives are winning the framing wars again.
 

SENEGAL'S CYNICAL INVITATION by Gwynne Dyer
  President offers homesteads if poverty-stricken Haitians can pay their own way to Africa.
 
 

EUROPEAN INQUIRIES INTO ATTACK ON IRAQ by George Monbiot for The Guardian
  While UK looks for lessons, The Netherlands mulls international law.
 

Take action!
STOP NEUROMARKETING from the World Business Academy
  Urge corporations and politicians to sign the pledge.

Feedback from our readers
HARPER AND DEMOCRACY by Larry Mackillop
  Returning from a trip to Uganda, I found Canada not such a safe democracy either...

Humour
THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT... from the Internet
  There's many a slip in the courtroom.