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Posted: June 16, 2010
CANADA COMPLICIT IN FLOTILLA "FARCE" by Linda McQuaig
Harper embraced Netanyahu, despite world outcry.
BEST HOPE FOR LEFT: JOINT NOMINATION MEETINGS by Clyde Sanger
About 60 Conservative seats are vulnerable if the Left works together.
THE BIG SHORT by Mel Watkins
A Robin Hood tax could soften the blow of the market meltdown.
  Media
AL JAZEERA IN CANADA by Steve Anderson for OpenMedia.ca
Steve Anderson interviews Avi Lewis.
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 Editorial
HOW CANADA COULD MAKE THE G8 AND G20 WORK by Ish Theilheimer
Canadians need to learn about the summits and make their voices heard.
NEW BRUNSWICK UPRISING by Penney Kome
Amid public protest, suddenly "no deal" on NB Power sale.
 Gordon's corner
HYSTERIA OVER FOX NEWS NORTH by Charles Gordon
Right-wing news did not find an audience when Conrad Black flogged it.
Science matters
OUR MESSY OIL ADDICTION by David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Gulf disaster teaches the folly of "foolproof" technology.
MeanToons
THAT SINKING FEELING
Must have been caused by the fake outhouses.
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 Canadian Politics
COALITION TALK GIVES HARPERITES AN ADVANTAGE by Geoffrey Stevens
Real issues get ignored in a fear campaign.
THE "MANCESSION" by Elsie Hambrook
Feminist economics questions market premises, priorities.
BC ENERGY MINISTER RESIGNS OVER HST by Bill Tieleman
Blair Lekstrom's bombshell heightens BC political drama.
CALGARY MP BIG SPENDER ON POLITICAL ACTIVISM by Trevor Scott Howell
Constituents unimpressed with "self-serving" mail-outs.
US FILMMAKER'S DOCUMENTARY SHOWS NEED FOR BILL C-300 by Straight Goods News staff
El Salvador film shows issues with Canadian mining companies abroad.
Workplaces
OFL MOURNS SHANNEN KOOSTACHIN from the Ontario Federation of Labour
First Nation teen fought for new school in her community.
LABOUR AROUND THE WORLD by Harry Kelber
Some 50 percent of the global workforce now work in precarious jobs.
Consumers
STREETVIEW'S WIDE SWEEP by Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart
Google admits StreetView cars eavesdropped on local wi-fi communications.
 USA watch
BP OIL INTERNATIONAL IS GETTING MORE THAN US$2.1 BILLION FROM DEFENSE DEPARTMENT from Public Citizen
Public Citizen urges US Defense Department to suspend and debar BP subsidiary.
Media files
THE FUTURE IS WHITE by John Gordon Miller
The Globe's Top 40 list is almost all white and all male.
MISSING IN THE MEDIA by Mehdi Rizvi
Immigrants to Canada rarely see their own lives on TV shows.
 Hot headlines
UNION-PHOBIA RUNS RAMPANT by Jim Hightower
Airlines battle workplace democracy.
 THE SPILL, THE SCANDAL AND THE PRESIDENT by Tim Dickinson for Rolling Stone
Obama's administration failed to reform the Minerals Management Service, which allowed the oil industry to self-regulate.
Take action!
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Tell Canadian and Quebec governments to back off on Section 74.
Humour
BP SPILLS COFFEE from UCBComedy on YouTube
This explains everything.
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