Posted: November 19, 2008

HARPER STILL SUPPORTS BUSH by Linda McQuaig
  At G20, Harper sides with Bush in opposing re-regulation of financial markets.
 
 

NOVEMBER 19 IS WORLD TOILET DAY by Dr Bob Dickson and Blaise Salmon
  Sanitation is the world's most neglected public health crisis.
 
 

ICELAND'S ECONOMIC MELTDOWN IS A BIG FLASHING WARNING SIGN by Toby Sanger
  Iceland followed the prescriptions of a right-wing ideologue and its economy paid a severe price.
 

FISHERIES ARE COLLAPSING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD by Lester R Brown
  Setting aside 30 percent of fishing ground for marine reserves is key to protecting oceans.
 

MeanToons
A FOND FAREWELL by John Meaney
  A fly on the wall heard what they really said...

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Editorial

WHEN THE RIGHT'S IN TROUBLE, WORRY! by Ish Theilheimer
  Crisis and Obama present opportunity and peril for progressives.
 
 

Science matters

BRITISH COLUMBIA HAS AN IDENTITY CRISIS by David Suzuki, with Faisal Moola
  Experts tell us that BC is squandering the province's unique biological inheritance.
 

Healthscope
HEALTH MINISTERS SHOULD ENFORCE THE LAW by David Eggen
  Provincial, federal health ministers can no longer turn a blind eye to violations of Canada Health Act.
 

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Canadian Politics

RAE OR IGNATIEFF by Geoffrey Stevens
  There are really only two possibilities who can be the next federal Liberal leader.
 

FORT CHIP LEADERS REJECT CANCER STUDY BEFORE RELEASE by Jeremy Klaszus
  Province can't be trusted regarding impacts of tar sands, says chief.
 

VOTE RESULTS BAD SIGN FOR LIBERALS by Bill Tieleman
  Centre-left candidates sweep the municipal elections.
 
 

COUNTING AND PREVENTING SPOUSAL HOMICIDES by Elsie Hambrook
  Provincial review committees urge public and professionals to recognize known risk factors.
 

Workplaces
USE EI SURPLUS TO SHORE UP PENSIONS: UFCW from the United Food and Commercial Workers
  Canada's biggest private sector union says money should be used to help workers.

Consumers
TIPS TO GET VALUE FROM YOUR CELL PHONE from the Telecommunications Research & Action Center
  Millions of consumers could slash up to half of their monthly cell phone bills by taking a few simple cost-saving steps.

Media files
UNIONS DEPLORE CANWEST LAYOFFS from Communication Workers of America
  CWA fears CanWest job cuts will send newspapers into downward spiral.

CANWEST A VICTIM OF ITS OWN GREED from the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
  Media chain should keep workers, shed investments: CEP.

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Hot headlines

92 MILLION AMERICANS ARE ILLITERATE by Chris Hedges
  This is our brave new world, a place where people order food from pictures and vote for the most compelling narrative.
 

THE REBIRTH OF PROGRESSIVISM by David Eaves and Taylor Owen
  In Obama, both Americans and Canadians can see the promise of something new.
 

IN PRAISE OF A ROCKY TRANSITION by Naomi Klein
  Every sweetheart deal the Bush administration makes, threatens to hobble Obama's ability to deliver on his promise of change.
 

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  Help celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Feedback from our readers
OBAMA HYPE by Jim Johnson
  Brace yourself for disappointment.

Humour
THE UPSIDE OF ECONOMIC HARD TIMES from the Internet
  More fibre...