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Straight Goods Articles - 2010
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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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