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UK army launches investigation into Afghan spending - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  UK army launches investigation - Rampant corruption means millions missing from aid funds. by Johnathan Owen for the Independent


Up in the air - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  Or just up in the world? Internet


"Stay-the-course" Budget tilts Canada rightward - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  Harper continues campaign to permanently disable government - Ish Theilheimer, with YouTube video


Poor, disabled at top of BC Libs' hit list - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  BC budget slashes social assistance to save $25 million over two years - Bill Tieleman


Ontario condemns dissent at universities - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  Legislature wrong to condemn "Israeli Apartheid Week" on campuses. - Linda McQuaig


Criminal charges laid in workplace fatality - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  OFL president Sid Ryan warns employers: Kill a worker, go to jail - the Ontario Federation of Labor


Fix that anthem - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  You dost not abandon changing O Canada - Charles Gordon


Support a living wage for garment workers - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  A nutritious meal should not be a luxury - from Cleanclothes.org


Women backsliding in Alberta - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  We still have a long way to go, baby - Shannon Phillips


Concerns about "cloud" computing - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  Privacy Commissioner launches public consultations on relevant privacy issues - from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada


The struggle for equality continues - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  Unions still in the forefront, on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day - Public Service Alliance of Canada


Odds favour the Taliban - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  Guerrillas have tended to win, in most post-imperial guerrilla wars - Gwynne Dyer


Budget snubs older Canadians - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  And they might return the favour - from the Canadian Association of Retired People


"Patriot" groups, militias surge in number in past year - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  Racist hate groups surged by 55 percent over the past decade, up to 932 in 2009 - the Southern Poverty Law Centre


Going for bronze - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  Harperites aim low with Throne speech and budget - Geoffrey Stevens


Austerity is wrong move - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  Harperite budget can only prolong the recession - Mel Watkins


UN Climate Chief quits - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  Widely liked and seen as fair, Yvo de Boer will be hard to replace. - Stephen Leahy


NB Status of Women report - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  Not all issues advance at the same rate - Elsie Hambrook


Canada — where the great wild things are - Posted: 09-Mar-10
  But where grizzly bears are concerned, the question is, for how long? - David Suzuki with Faisal Moola


BC Budget — the party's over - Posted: 02-Mar-10
  Social programs and public sector workers to be slashed. by Bill Tieleman


Fig leaves fall - Posted: 02-Mar-10
  Recent behaviour reveals the phony populism of the Harper government - James Laxer


Save our oceans - Posted: 02-Mar-10
  Sign petition urging UK to create world's largest Marine Protected Area. - Avaaz.org


News media still omit women - Posted: 02-Mar-10
  New report shows slow progress towards equal participation, depiction - the World Association for Christian Communication


Olympics glow offers Harper, and others, golden framing opportunity - Posted: 02-Mar-10
  Time for programs like Own Our Education and Own Our Environment - Ish Theilhemeir


If people counted - Posted: 02-Mar-10
  Canada's job crisis needs an answer in Thursday's federal budget - David Macdonald and Armine Yalnizyan


Nigeria at a turning point - Posted: 02-Mar-10
  Ailing, absent President Yar'Adua and his cronies losing grip on power - Chido Nwangwu


Alberta's weak election rules - Posted: 02-Mar-10
  Reforms still permit unlimited spending and fundraising - Gillian Steward


Runner-ups at the Punster's Beauty Pageant - Posted: 01-Mar-10
  There's one rule: Only nouns can enter - Dylan Kome


Olympic post-mortem - Posted: 01-Mar-10
  Did we win more than medals? - Charles Gordon


Why Iraqi women miss Saddam - Posted: 01-Mar-10
  For all his faults, former dictator promoted gender equality more than new regime does - Abdu Rahman and Dahr Jamail


Detainee abuse will come back to bite Harperites - Posted: 01-Mar-10
  Minority parties could work together to hold MacKay and Cannon in contempt - Stuart Thomson


NB Power deal delayed two months for hearings - Posted: 01-Mar-10
  Province opens debate but says nothing will change the already-negotiated $3.2-billion contract - NUPGE


Protecting workers, not corporations - Posted: 01-Mar-10
  US: Department of Labor is part of a "quiet revolution" in government - Mark Engler for Yes! Magazine


WHO tobacco treaty a global first - Posted: 01-Mar-10
  Fifth anniversary review shows huge uptake, usefulness, and remaining obstacles - Corporate Accountability International


Harper enjoys Olympics break - Posted: 01-Mar-10
  Now he has to tackle the moguls course on Parliament Hill - Geoffrey Stevens


Atomic accomplice - Posted: 01-Mar-10
  Canada's uranium sales increase pollution and risk of rogue nuclear weapons -


Music Freedom Day - Posted: 01-Mar-10
  Celebrate the right to make music without facing prison - Chantal Flores The Nation


The oil industry is your friend - Posted: 01-Mar-10
  New Alberta curriculum puts government spin in the classroom - Ricardo Acuña


Kiss kiss, smack smack - Posted: 01-Mar-10
  Youth dating violence remains a problem - Elsie Hambrook


Lessons from friendly microbes - Posted: 28-Feb-10
  Caring for ourselves goes hand in hand with caring for the planet - David Suzuki with Faisal Moola


Charlie Angus: stop Xstrata and Vale from closing Canadian mining operations - Posted: 23-Feb-10
  Charlie Angus: stop Xstrata and Vale from closing Canadian mining operations SGNI


Basi-Virk case dates set - Posted: 23-Feb-10
  BC Rail corruption case to start May 3, end by June 30, BC Supreme Court justice decides - Bill Tieleman


Feds challenge real estate fees - Posted: 23-Feb-10
  Want to list on MLS? You'll pay for a host of other services too, want them or not - Competition Bureau of Canada


Here's one way to get attention - Posted: 23-Feb-10
  Baltimore meterologist freaks out about snow forecast - AccuWeather.com


Framing the health care debate - Posted: 23-Feb-10
  Health is about life and freedom, not just dollars - George Lakoff


Restraint for everything but sports - Posted: 23-Feb-10
  Canada spends $6 billion for Olympics but budget holds line on health and education - Linda McQuaig


Smart power grids - Posted: 23-Feb-10
  Also, smart meters, smart appliances, and other ways to reduce energy use - Lester R. Brown


We should worry about what matters - Posted: 22-Feb-10
  And we should stop worrying about people who don't - Charles Gordon


Obama bets on wrong horse with nuclear investment - Posted: 22-Feb-10
  Green technologies show more promise of easing climate fears without side effects - Ish Theilheimer


Tell feds to protect public pensions - Posted: 22-Feb-10
  Sign petition developed by PSAC, PIPSC - Stuart Thomson


Labour issues "reality check" - Posted: 22-Feb-10
  Labour, women�s groups will tell UN Canada is lagging behind on commitments - the Canadian Labour Congress


Reviewing the RCMP - Posted: 22-Feb-10
  Senate's Red Serge Revival report makes some decent recommendations - John Baglow


Mossad's mixed record - Posted: 22-Feb-10
  Israeli policy compromised, embarrassed by recent "elimination" in Dubai - Uri Avnery


US politics echo Canadian history - Posted: 22-Feb-10
  America's battle over health care reform started in Saskatchewan - Christopher Flavelle


Save the pedestrians! - Posted: 22-Feb-10
  Reducing road speeds would reduce driver deaths too - Albert Koehl and Wayne Scott


Harper has won control of the Senate - Posted: 22-Feb-10
  Now what is he going to do with it? - Geoffrey Stevens


Oil exploration looms off the Falklands - Posted: 22-Feb-10
  Speculation could lead to another UK–Argentina showdown - Gwynne Dyer


Olympics protesters target tar sands - Posted: 22-Feb-10
  Olympics sponsors called out on greenwash attempts - Samantha Power


Defining anti-semitism - Posted: 22-Feb-10
  Opposition to Israel's policies is sometimes seen as hate speech - Paul Weinberg


Forty years later... - Posted: 22-Feb-10
  The Royal Commission on the Status of Women still reverberates - Elsie Hambrook


Nature imposes the real bottom line - Posted: 22-Feb-10
  In the real world, survival trumps the economy, jobs and profit - David Suzuki with Faisal Moola


Feds leave indigenous people out of five-nation Arctic meet - Posted: 16-Feb-10
  Exclusion undermines spirit and requirements of 14-year old Arctic Council - Ish Theilheimer


Automatic airplane - Posted: 16-Feb-10
  Sit back and let the robot handle everything.


Uganda: rights not repression - Posted: 16-Feb-10
  Gay Ugandans may be sentenced to death if legislation being debated right now passes - Avaaz.org


Fill your opening ceremony with arts, then cut them - Posted: 16-Feb-10
  Thanks for the show, artists — now get lost. BC to slash 90 percent of culture funding - Mark Leiren-Young


Alberta bets on another oil boom - Posted: 16-Feb-10
  Stelmach's budget boosts health care, infrastructure spending - Steward


Time to disown Canadian thuggishness - Posted: 16-Feb-10
  Olympics should be a chance to display higher values - Ish Theilheimer


Pashtuns are the wild card - Posted: 16-Feb-10
  Don't let Pakistan repeat past mistakes In Afghanistan - M. D. Nalapat


In praise of the Prorogation Moguls - Posted: 16-Feb-10
  And other essential crib notes on Canada and the Olympics - Geoffrey Stevens


Save O Canada! - Posted: 16-Feb-10
  Take away the microphones and stop stylizing already - Charles Gordon


Harper gives away the store - Posted: 16-Feb-10
  PM amends NAFTA, undermines local governments, to get in at the end of "Buy America" gold rush - James Laxer


RSI Awareness Day - Posted: 16-Feb-10
  Sit up straight, take frequent breaks, and protect yourself from serious injury - Serge Champoux


Olympics scams - Posted: 16-Feb-10
  Here are some ways to check tickets, sportswear, accommodation, travel packages - Better Business Bureau


The lobbying-media complex - Posted: 16-Feb-10
  Popular US commentators are sometimes on the payrolls of industries they analyze -Sebastian Jones


Preserving nature's "green jewels" - Posted: 16-Feb-10
  World Wetlands Week highlights the importance of keeping wetlands from becoming wastelands - Stephen Leahy


Harper's maternal health initiative - Posted: 15-Feb-10
  Ignatieff accepts what Harper ignores: pregnancy care has to include abortion - Joyce Arthur, Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada


The dark side of nitrogen - Posted: 15-Feb-10
  Ammonia used in fertilizer can migrate to cause problems in waterways and atmosphere - Stephanie Ogburn


About those jailed Iranian journalists - Posted: 15-Feb-10
  Authors, journalists and publishers launch "Our Society Will Be a Free Society" campaign - PEN and other groups


Imagine Saddam Hussein in 2010 - Posted: 15-Feb-10
  Tony Blair's vision of that future is his rationale for attack on Iraq - Gwynne Dyer


Draining the Athabasca River - Posted: 15-Feb-10
  Alberta's "water management strategy" leaning to even more de-regulation and market-based objectives - Ricardo Acuña


Ottawa stalls on repatriating Gitmo prisoner - Posted: 15-Feb-10
  Khadr case raises broad questions on child combatants - Paul Weinberg


Going for the Olympic green medals - Posted: 15-Feb-10
  Global gathering has large environmental footprint - David Suzuki with Faisal Moola


Proud to be from BC - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Satirical song contrasts Olympic, social spending - farmoredunsley


Foreign Affairs committee soldiers on - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Dewar presses for detainee accountability, Michael Ignatieff will forgo spring breaks - by Stuart Thomson, with Laura Osman


Influence of religious extremists rises under Harper government - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  HRSDC grants to faith-based groups shot up starting in 2008 - Ish Theilheimer


Political guide for Olympics visitors - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  You could not have a warmer welcome to our backyard - Bill Tieleman


Flaherty nixes Tobin tax - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Harperites obstruct G7 push for tax on financial speculation. - Linda McQuaig


Let the same old games begin - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Hypocrisy and protest accompany Big Sports - Charles Gordon


A new stampede of special interest money - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  US Supreme Court creates havoc for politics in America but not in Canada - Geoffrey Stevens


USA yearns for something like CBC - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Government funded media seen as last hope for American journalism - David Swanson


Rescuing failing states - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Every nation needs a Department of Global Security to fashion a coherent policy toward each weak and failing state - Lester R. Brown


Bring Omar Khadr to justice - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Tell PM: Supreme Court said to bring him back to Canada - Amnesty International


The creed of objectivity killed the news - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Vaunted lack of bias is the disease of American journalism - Chris Hedges Truth Dig


In Israel, "peace" is a four-letter word - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Activists embrace other struggles, which seem more winnable - Uri Avnery


No real bamboo textiles in Canada - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Competition Bureau takes action to ensure accuracy for textiles labelled and advertised as bamboo - from the Competition Bureau of Canada


Sudan broken by wars over oil - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Sovereignty for south might be best solution, but it goes against African and UN policy - Gwynne Dyer


Flu fear flown - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  H1N1 risk might have been exaggerated - Eben Harrell for Time Magazine


Albertans nickeled and dimed - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  New research shows Albertans pay the highest out-of-pocket costs for services - Parkland Institute


Sportswear sweatshops - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Coalition rates working conditions at makers of Olympic style sports gear - United Steel Workers


Take back our savings - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Reclaiming our capital can re-shape our economy - Thomas Croft


NB Heritage Week - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Time to review the heritage of women's victories in New Brunswick - Elsie Hambrook


At home in the Boreal forest - Posted: 12-Feb-10
  Traditional aboriginal knowledge is critical to conservation - David Suzuki with Faisal Moola


Vancouver's Olympics head for disaster - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  Everything that could go wrong, is in the process of going wrong - Douglas Haddow


Something really stinks in Facebook - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  Not one but two Facebook protest groups disappeared for days, with no explanation - Bill Tieleman


Urban Olympic legacies - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  Vancouver's experience is likely to be very different than Calgary's was - Gillian Steward


Rating the fisheries - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  Vanishing sockeye shouldn't be labelled "sustainable" - David Suzuki with Faisal Moola


Scrap the Superbowl ad - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  Top ten reasons the NFL should tell CBS not to run an anti-choice ad - from the Women's Media Center


Olympic hype distinctly non-Canadian - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  When sponsors and hucksters win, amateur sports lose - Ish Theilheimer


Homophobia in the classroom - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  How the Canadian education system is failing queer youth - Natasha Barsotti for Xtra


Bible references found on gun sights - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  Major armaments maker encodes chapter and verse on side of sights - Dennis Gruending


The revolution is coming! - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  The question is: how to carry it? - Charles Gordon


Two steps forward and one step backward for labour rights in 2009 - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  Labour victories were counterbalanced by legislative attacks, says NUPGE president - NUPGE


From ersatz populist to control freak - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  Harper in power shows a very different face from Harper in opposition - Geoffrey Stevens


How markets fail - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  Even if each free marketeer acts rationally, the hubris of the herd overrides all - Mel Watkins


Small can, big price - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  90 calorie cans of Coke to cost 50 to 140 percent more, pro-rated, than 12 ounce cans - Center for Science in the Public Interest


Rebuilding government - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  Obama administration rejuvenates agencies to protect workers' rights, health - Penney Kome


Bill Gates and the Green Revolution do Africa - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  Big money for agriculture might just mean money for Big Agriculture - Wendy Holm


Choosing Ms or Mrs - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  What's in a name? Tradition, identity, trouble? - Elsie Hambrook


Climategate and disbelief - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  Climate change deniers pounce on small mistakes and miss the big picture - Gwynne Dyer


Research perils - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  Beware the shaggy bear story - Internet


Alberta dissolves rural school board - Posted: 02-Feb-10
  Public, media, asking wrong questions about the root of the problem - Ricardo Acuña


The truth, the whole truth, and... - Posted: 26-Jan-10
  There's many a slip of tongue in the courtroom - from the Internet


Haitian realities contrast with stereotypes - Posted: 26-Jan-10
  Jean Saint-Vil: Canada should own up to hosting 2003 summit to plot Aristed's overthrow - Ish Theilheimer


European inquiries into attack on Iraq - Posted: 26-Jan-10
  While UK looks for lessons, The Netherlands mulls international law - George Monbiot for The Guardian


Help Haiti help itself - Posted: 26-Jan-10
  NGOs urge foreign ministers to help Haiti rebuild civil society - Canadian Council for International Co-operation


Stop neuromarketing - Posted: 26-Jan-10
  Urge corporations and politicians to sign the pledge - World Business Academy


From public watchdog to potential lapdog - Posted: 26-Jan-10
  David Loukidelis wrong to jump to deputy AG - Bill Tieleman


Money and Mother Earth - Posted: 26-Jan-10
  Climate change is a symptom of economic madness - David Suzuki and Faisal Moola


Populism masks elitists - Posted: 26-Jan-10
  Nothing could be less populist than the right's agenda - Linda McQuaig


Huge anti-prorogation rally shows power of social media - Posted: 26-Jan-10
  Thousands turn out in Ottawa cold to demand government get "back to work" - Laura Osman Stuart Thompson


George Lakoff on Obama and the way forward - Posted: 26-Jan-10
  The conservatives are winning the framing wars again - George Lakoff


Avoiding an Olympics hangover - Posted: 25-Jan-10
  Green jobs can save BC's economy after the Olympics bump returns to a slump - Marc Lee


Trading trees for beans - Posted: 25-Jan-10
  Growing demand for soybeans threatens Amazon rainforest - Lester R. Brown


Problems loom with upcoming Iraq election - Posted: 25-Jan-10
  Tensions mount over plans to ban some candidates - from Radio Free Europe


Calgarians against prorogation - Posted: 25-Jan-10
  Hundreds join protest outside Stephen Harper's constituency office - Penney Kome


Opportunity knocks for the opposition - Posted: 25-Jan-10
  Liberals, NDP and BQ could keep issues alive with hearings, daily press conferences - Geoffrey Stevens


American campaign to limit corporations - Posted: 25-Jan-10
  Supreme Court decision triggers movement for new Constitutional amendment. - Freespeechforpeople.org


Consumers left out in the code - Posted: 25-Jan-10
  Changes to credit and debit card policies could cost consumers more. - the Public Interest Advocacy Centre


CRTC reviewing $100 million "community media" fund - Posted: 25-Jan-10
  Media activists lobbying for return of community-participation channels on cable TV - Steve Anderson


Senegal's cynical invitation - Posted: 25-Jan-10
  President offers homesteads if poverty-stricken Haitians can pay their own way to Africa - Gwynne Dyer


Preventable tragedies - Posted: 25-Jan-10
  Unwanted infants at risk for infanticide, abandonment - Elsie Hambrook


Call for Nova Scotia workers to speak up - Posted: 25-Jan-10
  Province begins budget consultation meetings across province that could threaten public jobs - the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union


Protest online - Posted: 25-Jan-10
  Does it equal more than a warm feeling - Charles Gordon


No bottled water on March 11 - Posted: 19-Jan-10
  Sign up for Bottled Water Free Day - Canadian Federation of Students, the Sierra Youth Coalition and the Polaris Institute


Accused killers go free - Posted: 19-Jan-10
  Crime victims suffer - Bill Tieleman


Look out, Stelmach, here comes Ted Morton - Posted: 19-Jan-10
  "Right-winger with a PhD" gains power in Alberta cabinet - Gillian Steward


Al-Gebra latest threat - Posted: 19-Jan-10
  'There are 3 sides to every triangle' - Internet


Our responsibility to help rebuild Haiti - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  And, exposing Harper's grandstanding "as a trained economist" - Ish Theilheimer


In defence of online copyright - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  Former Open Culture advocates re-think, seeking ways to encourage true creativity - John Tierney


A line in the sand on privacy? Maybe not just yet - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  Airport scanners, carry-on ban and other reflections on flying - Charles Gordon


Time to go local - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  Banks should stop trying to sell CanWest as one giant conglomerate - John Gordon Miller


Why the US owes Haiti billions - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  As a matter of justice, the USA owes Haiti reparations - Bill Quigley


Governments turning their backs on pension crisis - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  Most seniors will have to get by on $16,000 a year from CPP and OAS - Larry Brown for the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE)


2010: International Year for Biodiversity - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  World urged to step up efforts on protecting species - Antoine Blua


Sri Lanka's future - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  January 26 election not likely to soothe ethnic frictions - Gwynne Dyer


Will Haiti save Harper's bacon? - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  Swift action in humanitarian crisis might override public concern about proroguing - Geoffrey Stevens


When bankers give advice... - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  Provinces should define and regulate financial planners - Public Interest Advocacy Centre


Youth unemployment soars globally - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  And other labour news from Germany, Chile, UK, Spain, Bangladesh and Finland - Harry Kelber


Wildrose Alliance and Renewal offer status quo - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  Two new parties promise "change," just not to anything different - Ricardo Acuña


Our role in Haiti's plight - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  Haiti's poverty is the direct legacy of brutal colonial exploitation - Peter Hallward


Avatar offers loads of fun with a green message - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  All of the issues in the movie are clearly the same as when Europeans first contacted indigenous people of the Americas - David Suzuki with Faisal Moola


Best reason to be a good employer: performance - Posted: 18-Jan-10
  New "Equality at Work" designation will give employers bragging rights - Elsie Hambrook


Tell Parliament, "Get back to work!" - Posted: 12-Jan-10
  On January 23, join anti-prorogation demonstrations across Canada No Progue!


Health Authority to close vital community living support - Posted: 12-Jan-10
  Closing Chimo Achievement Centre for people with serious disabilities will cost lives and dollars - Bill Tieleman


Proroguing shuts down investigation - Posted: 12-Jan-10
  Harper's decision cut off inquiry into possible complicity in torture - Linda McQuaig


Top ten scams of 2009 - Posted: 12-Jan-10
  Free trial offers and scams that take advantage of tough economic times dominate the list - Better Business Bureau


Alarmed by proposed trade deal - Posted: 12-Jan-10
  Public sector unions in Canada and Europe want major improvements to agreement - NUPGE, CUPE, PSAC, European Federation of Public Service Unions


The swine flu vaccine screw-up - Posted: 12-Jan-10
  Optimism alone won't protect public health - Barbara Ehrenreich


Waziristan — the last frontier - Posted: 12-Jan-10
  Ungovernable for centuries, Waziristan now the focus of hunt for al-Qaeda - Economist


Palin was a last-minute choice - Posted: 12-Jan-10
  New book reveals inside story on 2008 US presidential campaign - Anderson Cooper 60 Minutes


Flash frozen in history - Posted: 12-Jan-10
  Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months- European Science Foundation


Next budget will bring "Blood on the streets" - Posted: 12-Jan-10
  Conservatives will cite austerity to de-fund left and gore enemy oxen - Ish Theilheimer


Irish farmer in a car accident - Posted: 11-Jan-10
  There are always 2 sides to a story! - Internet


Sick with terror - Posted: 11-Jan-10
  Money spent on security does not secure good health- Amy Goodman


Our ocean cousins - Posted: 11-Jan-10
  Scientists say dolphins should be treated as "non-human persons" - Johnathan Leake


Calling for intelligent airport security - Posted: 11-Jan-10
  Security "enhancements" are a waste of time and money - Gwynne Dyer


Capitalism in flight - Posted: 11-Jan-10
  Capitalism shrinks the world — and each of us, too - Charles Gordon


Senate reform: the last refuge of intellectual bankrupts - Posted: 11-Jan-10
  Harper's bid to deflect prorogation rage bound to backfire - Geoffrey Stevens


Yemen a third quagmire - Posted: 11-Jan-10
  The Quiet American blunders from one disaster to the next - Uri Avnery


US car fleet shrinking - Posted: 11-Jan-10
  After a century of growth, US car ownership entering era of decline - Lester R. Brown


The world is watching - Posted: 11-Jan-10
  Canada's reputation as a progressive middle power is gone - Maude Barlow


Imagine a brighter 21st century - Posted: 11-Jan-10
  Constant growth is just not possible in a finite world with finite resources - David Suzuki with Faisal Moola


When the punchline is a real punch - Posted: 11-Jan-10
  Funny how the people who urge us to "get over it" have the most to gain - Elsie Hambrook


Xstrata Copper shuts Timmins operation - Posted: 11-Jan-10
  Local workers organize to reinstate ore processing facilities - Ben Lefebvre


US aid tied to purchase of arms - Posted: 06-Jan-10
  Weapons manufacture key to economy in the USA - Anne Davies


The quotable Gordon Campbell quiz of 2009 - Posted: 06-Jan-10
  The Premier may yet rue many of his statements - Bill Tieleman


The poor-bashing bandwagon - Posted: 06-Jan-10
  When times get tough, politicians deflect attention by blaming social assistance recipients - Jamie Swift


Take back Parliament - Posted: 06-Jan-10
  Forget prorogation – ask your MP to attend Parliament anyway - Facebook


Make politicians resolve to be honest - Posted: 06-Jan-10
  The number one reason non-voters give is lack of honesty in politics - Duff Conacher


Why news media are filled with year-end reviews - Posted: 05-Jan-10
  Newspapers have tons of ads and nothing to fill the news hole - Charles Gordon


Front page outrage - Posted: 05-Jan-10
  Putting an editorial in the news section underscores the Globe's alarm at Harper's actions - Geoffrey Stevens


Ontario college teachers to strike - Posted: 05-Jan-10
  Province-wide strike vote will be held Jan. 13 after management walks away from bargaining table - NUPGE


Blackfire blamed in Mexican activist's death - Posted: 05-Jan-10
  Harper government must adopt legislation to punish corrupt practices by Canadian-based mining corporations - Council of Canadians, United Steelworkers, Common Frontiers-Canada and MiningWatch Canada


Israel won the war but lost the public - Posted: 05-Jan-10
  Cost to Israel's reputation outweighs military victory - Uri Avnery


Ice melting faster everywhere - Posted: 05-Jan-10
  Some say the summer of 2037 could see the first ice-free Arctic in a million years - Alexardra Giese


Olympic security supercedes national laws - Posted: 05-Jan-10
  21st Century Olympics raise hackles among Vancouver residents - Paul Weinberg


Next year, the world would be a better place if... - Posted: 05-Jan-10
  Work towards equality and against violence would improve all our lives - Elsie Hambrook


Stelmach Tories destabilized - Posted: 05-Jan-10
  Right-wing Wildrose party growing fast in Alberta - Gillian Steward


The Mayans were wrong - Posted: 05-Jan-10
  The world is not going to end in 2012... - Jim Kempkes


2010 could be Harperites' decade without radical action - Posted: 05-Jan-10
  And: thanks for rare courage speaking out on airline security - Ish Theilheimer


USA imposes new rules on airlines - Posted: 04-Jan-10
  Regulations limit how long passengers may be kept on grounded planes - US Department of Transport


In the public interest - Posted: 04-Jan-10
  Journalistic Statement of Principles protects newspapers too - John Miller


Dodging the bullet(s) - Posted: 04-Jan-10
  Forget making progress — 2009 was notable for the disasters that didn't happen - Gwynne Dyer


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