Posted: January 02, 2008

CONRAD BLACK'S DRAMA by Linda McQuaig
  Canada's most flagrant media tycoon once suggested that this writer be "horsewhipped".

THE TAX-CUT MANTRA by Linda McQuaig
  Music to ears of the wealthy, tax cuts undermine egalitarian society.

GETTING IRAQ WRONG by Michael Ignatieff
  Former Liberal leadership contender recants in US publication.
 
 

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

MeanToons
COAL IN HIS STOCKING by John Meaney
  Santa is not the only person who remembers.

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HARPER'S SAD AND SECRET SPECTACLE AT MONTEBELLO by Ish Theilheimer
  Government makes protest impossible, then disses it.
 
 

MISSION OF FOLLY by James Laxer
  Why Canada should bring its troops home from Afghanistan.
 
 

HOUSING NEEDS A TOMMY DOUGLAS by Cathy Crowe
  300,000 people are homeless and their health suffers as a result.
 
 

CHANGING THE CANCER PARADIGM by Guy Dauncey, Liz Armstrong and Ann Wordsworth
  Instead of blaming lifestyles, we need to take a hard look at environmental causes of cancer.

MEDICAL ISOTOPES AND PARLIAMENTARY IRRESPONSIBILITY by Dr Ole Hendrickson
  The battle over restarting the Chalk River reactor illuminates the sorry state of regulation.
 

IRAQ'S ENVIRONMENTAL NIGHTMARE by Stephen Leahy
  Three wars since 1980 have had devastating effects.
 
 

JUNE CALLWOOD MADE A DIFFERENCE by Geoffrey Stevens
  An irresistible force, she believed you had to act as well as analyze.
 
 

REMEMBERING DORIS ANDERSON by Penney Kome
  Courageous and outspoken, she helped change Canada's constitution as well as its media.
 
 

Gordon's corner


OSCAR PETERSON'S GENIUS by Charles Gordon
  World-class pianist was much more than a technician.
 
 

Workplaces

AVATARS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! by Derek Blackadder
  Italian union's virtual demonstration against IBM launches new world of job actions.
 

COURT PUTS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING INTO THE CONSTITUTION by Roy J Adams
  Some implications of the Supreme Court's BC Health Services decision.
 

Science matters

THE SUV IN THE LIVING ROOM by David Suzuki
  Giant TVs consume huge amounts of electricity.
 
 

Health matters


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

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

World beat

IN MEMORY OF BENAZIR BHUTTO by Medea Benjamin
  Cut US Ties to Musharraf.
 
 
 

PICK OF THE WEEK

CHURCH OF THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER Pastafarians defend evolution. From Tampa, Florida, comes news that yet another school board has been dissuaded from trying to add Intelligent Design to the science curriculum (alongside evolution) by a deluge of email from self-proclaimed Pastafarians. Members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster insist that their Creation story (that their deity created Earth with a touch of its "noodly appendage") must have equal time with any other Creation story, besides evolution. "They've made us the laughingstock of the world," complained one school board member, who initially supported the Intelligent Design bid — which has quietly faded away.   www.venganza.org   (See also blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/12/evolution-beats.html)

Hot headlines

FREEDOM DIFFERENT FROM FREE MARKETS by John Freeman
  Naomi Klein deconstructs the "2-for-1" shock doctrine myth.
 
 

CREDIT CRISIS TO GET WORSE by Floyd Norris
  Subprime mortgages just one example of lack of due diligence in lending.
 
 

BHUTTO: A LOT TO LOSE, NOT MUCH TO WIN by Gwynne Dyer
  Bhutto never seemed to have any real goal in politics, apart from vindicating her father.
 
 

Feedback from our readers
LANGUAGE CONCERNS by Don Wilson
  Let's not condescend to central Asians.

Humour
ONE LAST WHIFF OF THAT WARM WINTER SPIRIT from the Internet
  Happy New Year to all!