Posted: September 19, 2007

ELECTORAL REFORM ON ONTARIO BALLOT by Linda McQuaig
  Mixed Member Proportional system would more accurately reflect how people vote.
 
 

ONTARIO TOO CLOSE TO CALL by Geoffrey Stevens
  Poll results are all over the place.
 
 

AN ORGANIC RECIPE FOR DEVELOPMENT by Stephen Leahy
  Organic farming offers solutions for many problems in developing nations.
 
 

DE-FUNDING ADVOCACY by Ginette Petitpas-Taylor
  Changes to Status of Women Canada funding have undermined vital women's groups.
 
 

Editorial

QUÉBEC BY-ELECTIONS MAKE IT A WHOLE NEW HOCKEY GAME by Ish Theilheimer
  Change in the wind but outcome far from certain.
 

Canadian Politics


GREEN TROUBLE FOR NDP'S JAMES by Bill Tieleman
  Leader kicks MLA out of caucus for not supporting land transfer.
 
 

RUNNING TO BE ALBERTA'S FIRST LIBERAL PREMIER by Sheila Pratt
  Kevin Taft spent the summer wooing Albertans in smaller communities.
 

JOHN TORY STARTS A CULTURE WAR by James Laxer
  Tory was letting religious fundamentalists know that he is not unsympathetic to their aspirations.
 
 

BC "BOOM" NOT FOR ALL by Marco Procaccini
  Progress Board reports many people not benefiting.
 

Workplaces
THE NEW UNION MAJORITY by Pat Daley
  More women union members than men, in the rank and file.

Consumers
"POPCORN WORKERS LUNG" from OMB Watch
  Microwave popcorn topping was known to be hazardous to workers before public health warning.

Gordon's corner

FAMILY STUDY OMITS THORNY by Charles Gordon
  StatsCan study on changing family structure leaves out the neighbour factor.
 

Science matters

BIOFUELS NOT NECESSARILY ALL THAT GREEN by David Suzuki, with Faisal Moola
  We use about a litre of fossil fuels to grow, harvest, process and transport a litre of gas-based ethanol.
 

Gaia beat
CLEAN ENERGY BOOM IN US from the US Public Interest Research Group
  State standards increase production, ease pollution.

Media files

PANIC ABOUT FAMILIES by Antonia Zerbisias
  StatsCan study opens door to right-wing pressure for women to return to home.
 
 

PICK OF THE WEEK

KABUL DIARY Trade unionists report on tour of Afghanistan Researchers Angela Joya, Hamayon Rastgar and Mike Skinner formed the Afghanistan-Canada Research Group to investigate Canada's role in Afghanistan. They wrote copious daily accounts of their travels and posted them to this website thus providing candid and sometimes harrowing snapshots of daily life in a nation still under siege. You have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of each page to find the link to the next page. See the Trade Unionists Against the War site at:   www.tuaw.ca/other/dispatch0.htm

Hot headlines
BUSH CONTINUES TO THREATEN IRAN by Helene Cooper
  Behind the scenes, heated debate between Condi Rice and Dick Cheney's staff.

ONWARD, SECULAR SOLDIERS by Katha Pollitt
  Religious skepticism making a comeback in progressive circles.

EXTREME CLIMATE BREEDS EXTREME POLITICS by Gwynne Dyer
  Greek wildfires generate support for extremist parties.
 
 

Take action!
RIVERKEEPERS, UNITE! from SavetheRupert.org
  Write your legislator to protest new dams at James Bay.

Feedback from our readers
GOLF COURSE ONLY BENEFITS RICH by Allan McRae
  Musqueam band should regain the land.

Humour
COGNITIVE TESTING from the Internet
  Nothing like quick thinking.