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Posted: February 14, 2007

Cathy Crowe
COLD STREETS GETTING COLDER
by Cathy Crowe
  Funding cutbacks, new policies, strip away services for Toronto's homeless.
 

ECHOES OF TRUDEAU by Anthony Westell
  Obamamania evokes Trudeaumania.

Kate Harries
SUICIDE WATCH AT KASHECHEWAN
by Kate Harries
  Nine health care workers try to help people deal with grim realities of Northern reserve.
 
 

Lynne van LuvenBook Excerpt

NOBODY'S MOTHER by Lynne van Luven
  New book explores how society treats women without children.
 

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Ish TheilheimerEditorial
BY-ELECTION LOSSES GIVE DALTON MCGUINTY A LESSON IN CHARACTER EDUCATION by Ish Theilheimer
  Fall Ontario vote could bring minority government or even stranger things.
 

Linda McQuaig

POUNDING THE KEYS
  Linda McQuaig will return after she has completed her new book.
 
 

Collecting indigenous languages does not constitute 'meaningful consultation'...Rez Solutions?
ABORIGINAL LEARNING KNOWLEDGE CENTRE STIRS CONTROVERSY by Stewart Steinhauer
  Stewart maintains that collecting indigenous languages does not constitute "meaningful consultation".

Health matters
Vera Hassner SharavMeryl Nass
NOT SO FAST WITH THE GARDASIL HPV VACCINE
by Vera Hassner Sharav and Meryl Nass
  Expensive, much-hyped vaccine may have its own risks.
 

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Bill TielemanCanadian Politics

WHAT THE BC LIBERAL THRONE SPEECH SHOULD HAVE SAID by Bill Tieleman
  Funds for housing, addiction treatment would be a good start.
 

Geoffrey Stevens
ROBERT L STANFIELD AIRPORT A FITTING TRIBUTE
by Geoffrey Stevens
  There is little rhyme or reason to how places are named in honour of famous people.
 

Nicola NasserView from Ramallah
MIDDLE EAST QUARTET REINFORCES STATUS QUO by Nicola Nasser
  Faced with uncertainty, Palestinian organizations lapse into in-fighting.
 

Workplaces
FEBRUARY 28 IS RSI AWARENESS DAY from the Workers Health and Safety Centre
  An hour of prevention is worth a lifetime of freedom from pain.

Watershed ways
Lynn Jones

SINGING THE PRAISES OF CABBAGE
by Lynn Jones
  Canadians can too have fresh green salads during winter.
 
 

Consumers
VISHING JOINS PHISHING AS A SECURITY THREAT by Andy Patrizio
  Phone call urges people to call their "bank number", then enter account number.

Media files
HOW MEDIA CAN PREVENT ANOTHER IRAQ by Dan Froomkin
  Journalists should ask tough questions about US plans to attack Iran.

Hot headlines
HARPOCRITES DUCKING NET NEUTRALITY by Lee-Anne Goodman
  Government documents suggest Tories not nervous about ISPs interfering with Net.

IRAQ: WOMEN UNDER THE OCCUPATION interviewed by Kymberlie Adams Matthews
  Noted feminist Yanar Mohammed calls current situation "our darkest hour".

Murray Dobbin
HOW THE LEFT SHOULD FRAME ISSUES
by Murray Dobbin
  The only way to defeat Harpocrites is to beat them at their own word games.
 
 

US ABLE TO STRIKE AT IRAN IN SPRING by Ewen MacAskill
  Pentagon plans for possible attack on nuclear sites are well advanced.

Dianne Rinehart
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY — MASSACRE!
by Dianne Rinehart
  Valentine's Day might be a bit frosty this year.
 
 

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Matthew BehrensTake action!

SUPPORT THE GITMO NORTH HUNGER STRIKERS by Matthew Behrens
  At Day 80, prisoners say, "We may not have much more time."
 

Feedback from our readers
LET'S NOT OVERDO THE "DON'T BUY RRSPs" LINE by Rick Coe
  RRSPs do make sense for middle-income people whose tax rates in retirement will be lower than their current tax rates.

Humour
THERE'S LOVE IN THE AIR from the Internet
  Stories of romance in honour of the day.
 

BOOK EXCERPTS

Dennis Raphael

POVERTY AND POLICY IN CANADA
by Dennis Raphael
  Last week's Book Excerpt is still available.
 
 

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