Posted: February 28, 2007

SPRING OFFENSIVE LOOMS IN AFGHANISTAN by James Laxer
  Canadians soldiers dying as US eyes widening the war to Iran.
 
 

ONE IS TOO MANY by Ginette Petitpas-Taylor
  Behind every sexual assault statistic is a person.
 
 

HARPERITES STUMBLE ON JUDICIAL POLICIES by Geoffrey Stevens
  Supreme Court rules against detention without hearings.
 
 

GOVERNMENT SECRECY IMPAIRS JUSTICE: SUPREME COURT by Matthew Behrens
  Security certificates must be abolished.

HAWKS GET BUCKS TO SELL WAR by Paul Weinberg
  Pro-military university centres reaping DND funding.
 
 

Editorial
HARPER POISED BUT WILL HE LEAP? by Ish Theilheimer
  Opposition weaknesses could give us a spring federal election — or maybe not.
 

Book excerpt
ENOUGH BLOOD SHED by Mary Wynne Ashford
  101 Solutions to Violence, Terror and War.

Health matters


"WAIT TIME" HYPOCRISY by Gordon Guyatt
  "Wait time" guarantees result in a set of perverse incentives.
 
 

Faith speaks
MUSLIMS, ARABS, BOYCOTT HARPER from the Canadian Islamic Congress, The Canadian Arab Federation and The Canadian Muslim Forum
  Accusing PM of not governing on behalf of the majority of Canadians.

MARCHING FROM GRASSY NARROWS TO WASHINGTON STATE from the Rainforest Action Network
  3,000 mile "Road to Seattle" to raise awareness about boreal forests and indigenous rights.

Science matters

MYTHBUSTING ON GLOBAL WEIRDING by David Suzuki
  Public grasps global warming better than commentators do.
 
 

Canadian Politics

GORDON CAMPBELL'S CHANGE OF HEART by Bill Tieleman
  BC Premier acts like a whole new person.
 

ATLANTICA: MYTHS AND REALITIES by Scott Sinclair
  Proposed trade zone would benefit the US more than Atlantic Canada.

ANALYZING ONTARIO'S BY-ELECTIONS from Inside Queen's Park
  And: Liberals sensitive about perception of promise-breaking.
 

QUEBEC VOTERS COULD SEAL PM'S FATE by Chantal Hébert
  Provincial election will echo through national political scene.

Workplaces
SHAFTED! MINING DEATHS UNDER BUSH by Ken Ward Jr
  Bush administration reversed decades of progress on mine safety.

Consumers
18 SECONDS MAKES A DIFFERENCE from 18seconds.org
  Save the world — and save money, too.

Media files
MAGAZINES SKIMP ON WOMEN WRITERS by Heather Mallick
  Ratio at Harper's Magazine nearly 7 male to one female writer.
 

Hot headlines

MOM'S MAD. AND SHE'S ORGANIZED by Kara Jesella
  New MomsRising.org frames equality as family economic issue.

US DRIVES PRISONERS INSANE, COURT HEARS by Naomi Klein
  Deliberate program of sensory deprivation, overload, leaves prisoners like "furniture".

Take action!
END CLUSTER BOMBS! from Ceasefire.ca
  Urge PM Harper to work with other countries to ban cluster bombs.

Feedback from our readers
RE: CORPORATE TRADE DEALS CUT SWATHS THROUGH INDUSTRIAL CANADA by Susanne Shaw, Port Alice, BC
  Really, Ish, you have to get out more... :-)

Humour
THE FINAL WORD ON NUTRITION... from the Internet
  It's not what you eat!