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June 2005: A Threat of Biblical Proportions
Christian religious extremists preaching a reborn fascism The rise of religious extremism in Muslim countries is a cause for concern, but much more alarming is the upsurge of Christian fundamentalism…
May 2005: When Profits Get Priority Over Health
Vioxx disaster exposes the dark downside of corporate rule Testifying before a U.S. Senate committee looking into the Vioxx-induced heart attacks of an estimated 100,000 or more Americans (and probably…
April 2005: No News is Bad News
Does it do any good to complain about mass media failings? Journalism was always the career I wanted, almost from the time I learned to read and write, and I…
March 2005: The Suicidal Cult of Individualism
Rich may learn too late that greed is self-destructive The poet Robert Frost speculated on whether the world would be ended by fire or ice, which today could probably be…
February 2005: The Father of Medicare
Was Tommy Douglas our greatest Canadian? No one else is close The CBC’s search last fall for “the greatest Canadian” didn’t grab my attention. I thought it was inane to…
December 2004: The Right is Wrong and the Left is Right
Public opinion in Canada, as in the U.S., pulled to the right Reading Lewis Lapham’s chilling account in Harper’s of how public opinion in the U.S. was dragged to the…
November 2004: How to Brainwash a Population
Democracy can’t work if system is subverted by propaganda Winston Churchill once described democracy as “the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from…
October 2004: Exposing and Opposing Corporate Power
Regardless of the outcome, the cause itself is worth the struggle My first brush with corporate power happened a long time ago, when I was editor of the daily newspaper…
September 2004: Filling Our Tanks (And Brains) With The Wrong Fuel
Lament for an election in which the crucial issue was ignored Anyone who has recently bought or leased a new car in Canada may find this warning in its Driver’s…
July 2004: Let’s Learn from F.D.R.
Our jobless youth could be doing needed environmental repair work Here we are in the summer of 2004, fortunate to be living in one of the world’s most resource-endowed countries,…
June 2004: The 2004 Elections
Voters in both Canada and US have crucial decisions to make Back in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, when the CCF and the Canadian Labour Congress were promoting a…
May 2004: High and Mighty
People have many excuses for driving an SUV, none of them valid It’s tempting for me to begin this column by saying that “some of my best friends are SUV…
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