Posted: May 02, 2007

HARPER VIOLATING GUN LAWS by James Laxer
  Harperites quietly extend amnesty for gun registration resisters.
 
 

FIRST NATIONS WOMAN WINS $125,000 ENVIRONMENT AWARD from The Goldman Environmental Prize
  Sophis Rabliauskas protected Manitoba boreal forest while calling for World Heritage designation.
 

BIOFUEL A POLITICAL FOOTBALL by John Chuckman
  Politicians seize on half-smart solution to oil shortage, global warming.

LEFT OUT IN THE COLD by Gordon Laxer
  North American Future pact secures energy for US but not for Canada.
 
 

Editorial
STEPHEN HARPER, THE ANGRY PRIME MINISTER, HAS PEAKED by Ish Theilheimer
  PM's obsession with controlling the message and messengers is becoming blatant and tiresome.
 

Gordon's corner

PUBLIC STILL LEADS GOVERNMENT ON ENVIRONMENT by Charles Gordon
  Until now, most governments have stalled in hopes that technology would save the planet.
 

Science matters

DISAPPEARING BEES by David Suzuki
  Mysterious phenomenon has researchers baffled.
 
 

Canadian Politics


THINKING ABOUT GORE by Geoffrey Stevens
  Former US VP dares to criticize Canada's government.
 
 

EXPORTING BITUMEN — AND JOBS by Sheila Pratt
  Oil sands pipeline ships raw bitumen to Texas for refining.
 
 

BASI SCANDAL CAN HURT by Bill Tieleman
  Premier Campbell stonewalling on links to BC Liberal party.
 
 

BEHIND EVERY SUCCESSFUL WOMAN IS A HISTORY by Ginette Petitpas-Taylor
  School heritage fairs should include history of struggles for equality.
 

ONTARIO LIBERALS STUMBLE from INSIDE QUEEN'S PARK
  Lottery and pathologist scandals dominate; new voting system goes to referendum.
 

Workplaces

GOOD JOBS GOING by Ken Georgetti
  "They see the numbers, they don't see the crisis."
 
 

Watershed ways


"OFF THE GRID" IN MATAWATCHAN by Lynn Jones
  Shower outdoors and save money!
 
 

Consumers
GOOGLE'S ACQUISITION OF DOUBLECLICK CALLED PRIVACY THREAT by Stefanie Olsen
  Public interest groups say personal information of 1.1 billion Internauts at risk.

Media files

READERS MULL NEW GLOBE by Antonia Zerbisias
  National newspaper makeover looks like Web 1.0
 
 

BUYING THE WAR from PBS.org
  Bill Moyers kicks off his return to PBS by asking why US media didn't question Iraq invasion.
 
 

World beat

RE-ADJUSTING ISRAEL'S SYMBOLS by Uri Avnery
  New flag, national anthem, would reflect population better.
 
 

Hot headlines

RECONCILING THE TREATIES by Sandra Shields
  Stó:lõ peoples asking Canada to live up to its laws and commitments.
 

SACRIFICIAL WOLF – OWITZ by Naomi Klein
  World Bank president excoriated for wrong reasons.
 
 

SUBSIDIZING JUNK FOOD by Michael Pollan
  You are what you grow.
 
 

CRISIS AND COMFORT AT GATE 4-A by Naomi Shihab Nye
  Wandering around an Albuquerque airport terminal.
 
 

Take action!
URGE FEDS TO PASS BILL C-30 from Greenpeace.ca
  Support Greenpeace amendments to Clean Air Act.

Feedback from our readers
IRAQ AND AMERICAN DEATH COUNT TO 2017 by chycho
  Economic cost of war only a fraction of the equation.

Humour
DISCOVERY OF TRUE INTENT from the Internet
  — leads to tears.

DoubleTake
COUNTING SHEEP
  Olive a few...;-)