Posted: April 23, 2008

CRIME AND (MILD) PUNISHMENT by Linda McQuaig
  The killing of Paul Croutch sounds almost like a hate crime against the homeless.
 
 

ROUND FOUR OF THE SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP (SPP) TALKS by Bruce Campbell
  The SPP is the umbrella under which hundreds of trilateral initiatives have been assembled.
 

SPEND MONEY ON HOUSING, NOT WAR by Cathy Crowe
  Military mentality hurts Canada's most vulnerable.
 
 

MeanToons
BUSH FINDS AN OUT by John Meaney
  There are limits to how much even the president can ask of a new friend.

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Editorial

END CANADA'S POLITICAL GRIDLOCK by Ish Theilheimer
  Creative solutions are needed to lead Canada's permanent minority parliament out of darkness.
 

Science matters

FISHING FOR SALMON ANSWERS by David Suzuki, with Faisal Moola
  Although some kinds of farmed seafood make sense, farmed salmon has specific problems.
 

Canadian Politics

WANTED: POLITICAL TIGHTROPE WALKER by Geoffrey Stevens
  Whoever conducts Mulroney/Schreiber commission walks between precipices.
 

EAT BC by Bill Tieleman
  British Columbians can celebrate Earth Day by eating local food.
 
 

HOW SHARON MCIVOR IS TAKING ON THE INDIAN ACT by Ginette Petitpas-Taylor
  Supreme Court of Canada rules that Bill C-31 compromise is still discriminatory.
 

ALBERTANS ON AUTOPILOT by Gillian Steward
  Voter apathy equals Ralph's vision realized.
 
 

Workplaces
WORKPLACE FATALITIES STILL INCREASING from the Canadian Labour Congress
  Transpavé Inc was the first company prosecuted under new Criminal Code provisions for workplace deaths.

Consumers
SQUEEZING THE NICKEL from Bensimon Byrnes Advertising Agency
  Concerned over a darkening economy, 57 percent of Canadians are spending less.

Media files
WRITERS' UNION SPEAKS OUT AGAINST "BIG BROTHER" APPROACH TO THE ARTS from the Writers' Union of Canada
  Writers' reps tell Senate committee not to change tax provisions for films.

World beat
IRAQ: US TROOPS TARGET ERRANT IRAQI POLICE by Richard Tomkins
  Corruption, sectarianism threaten uneasy peace in Governate north of Baghdad.

US election watch

HILLARY JUST WENT TOO FAR by Michael Moore
  Democrats are a lesser evil than Republicans, and Obama is more than a lesser evil among Democrats.
 
 

PICK OF THE WEEK

EVERYONE THINKS GREEN ON EARTH DAY Some places think green year-round. Grist Magazine, for example, has been promoting environmental awareness since long before it became trendy. Its online archives go back to 1999. And the current feature articles are lively and engaging: check out the "Superlatives" feature for the best and worst environmental news items of the year.   www.grist.org

Hot headlines

HARPER'S "NATION OF SHOPPING CENTRES" by Frances Russell
  Conservatives have re-engineered the budget to prevent any future government from introducing new national programs.
 

MEET THE ZOOMERS by Cynthia Ross Cravit
  Aging with zip: Media innovator Moses Znaimer creates a new way to understand the "50 plus".

THE RISE OF SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS by Simon Johnson
  We don't know much about these major state-owned players.
 
 

STUFFED AND STARVED from Democracy Now!
  Raj Patel details "The Hidden Battle for the World Food System".
 
 

ZIMBABWE: A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE by Gwynne Dyer
  History explains why Mugabe acts the way he does — and why Africans let him.
 
 

Take action!
CROSS-CANADA SPEAKING TOUR ON "CROPS, CARS AND CLIMATE CRISIS" from Canadian Biotechnology Action Network
  Check schedule for speakers in your area.

Feedback from our readers
TIME TO CHANGE CANADA'S ELECTION SYSTEM by Daphne L Hunt
  Only 23.68 percent of eligible voters chose Conservatives.

Humour
CANADIAN WINTERS from the Internet
  Something worth moving away from.