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Klein continues to push for a two-tiered health care system.
Geza Vermes, the world's leading Gospel scholar, on the life of Jesus.
Reading: The Darkness That Comes Before by R Scott Bakker
2004-12-11
Canadian Supreme Court says legalising gay marriage would not violate the constitution; PM vows to bring in legislation in 2005.
Australian snakes demonstrate contemporary evolution.
20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA.
Photographer Gideon Mendel documents the impact of HIV/AIDS in Mozambique.
2004-12-04
Witnesses say the US military is using napalm in Fallujah.
Federally funded abstinence-only programs teach 'false, misleading, or distorted information' according to a recent analysis.
Arnold Schwarzenegger claims his 'inappropriate' behavior towards women is over: 'I learned my lesson. I know now what can be said and what can't be said.'
Bono vows to fight poverty.
Brian C Mooney: 'Serious instances of voting machine problems or human errors in ballot counts have been documented in at least a dozen states.'
2004-11-23
Margie Burns: 'As things stand right now, it seems unlikely that Mr. Bush won the election.'
A pod of dolphins save some swimmers from a great white shark.
This Friday, celebrate Buy Nothing Day.
2004-11-14
Rage Against the Machines: The web wonders if e-voting machines stole the US election. Let the healing begin indeed.
American soldiers on Canadian soil?
2004-10-30
Bin Laden resurfaces days before the US election.
Yet another excuse to drink red wine.
Tony Kushner: '...they’re knowingly returning to the White House an embarrassingly inept, ignorant, incurious, and unfeeling figurehead for the worst conventicle of religious nuts, plutocrats, and petrochemical bagmen ever to lay hold of our federal government.'
2004-10-25
The Atkins diet goes on trial tomorrow in Florida.
Jonathan Freedland: Faith Against Reason
Nearly 380 tons of explosives have gone missing from a former Iraqi military facility.
2004-10-10
Prime Minister John Howard is re-elected in Australia.
A transcript of the 2nd American presidential debate.
Alex Kirby: Planet Under Pressure
Hummer eau de toilette: A 'classic yet bold new fragrance for men.'
2004-10-03
Neil Mackay: 'Welcome to the disaster-waiting-to-happen that is the US presidential election of November 2004.'
Research confirms that some dogs can smell cancer in humans.
Oxfam Unwrapped: Send a practical gift to someone who really needs one.
2004-09-21
The US government takes on the tobacco industry in a trial that may be worth $280 billion.
David Gallagher: Too many phish in the internet sea.
The UK's Liberal Democrats discuss ways to deal with climate change.
A Labrador retriever goes for a celebratory drive through Whitehorse.
Bush and Kerry talk science.
2004-09-04
Frank Rich: 'Only in an election year ruled by fiction could a sissy who used Daddy's connections to escape Vietnam turn an actual war hero into a girlie-man.'
Meet James Rinaldo Jackson, identity thief to the stars.
Sum of a Glitch: Electronic voting machines might be the real swing voters this November.
A black bear tries to escape from a Berlin zoo with a bicycle.
2004-08-21
Paul Krugman: 'There is a substantial chance that the result of the 2004 presidential election will be suspect.'
A young black bear is found passed out in a Washington campground after drinking three dozen cans of beer.
Extreme weather: 'Heat waves in the 21st Century will be more intense, more frequent and longer lasting.'
Bill Thompson: Do you Copy?
John Kerry defends his military record.
2004-08-07
American drug tsar admits that despite spending billions of dollars, the war on drugs has been a failure.
Bush suddenly opposes legacy admissions... despite the fact that he was one.
Cigarettes are increasingly being used as currency on the black market.
Jane Roberts: 'W' does not stand for Women.
2004-08-04
New military documents on the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison include 'detailed reports that U.S. troops and translators sodomized and raped Iraqi prisoners.'
An impoverished Chinese student kills himself when he can't afford to pay his school fees.
Canadian kids just keep getting fatter.
Even Republicans don't trust the new touch-screen voting machines.
2004-07-31
Naomi Klein: 'Anybody but Bush - and then let's get back to work.'
The Vatican has released a document intended 'to define the place of women in the Church and in the modern world.'
The US budget deficit will reach $445 billion this year.
2004-07-24
Mark Morford: Just how far will desperate Republicans go to trick America into another BushCo victory?
Workers at a supplier for KFC chicken are caught on camera "stomping on, kicking and throwing live chickens about."
Tennessee inmates make a beer run.
2004-07-11
Less than half of American adults read a book last year.
This creepy new weapon will be used for 'crowd dispersion.'
A young female member of India's dalit caste has beaten all odds to study medicine in college.
California's education secretary tells a six-year-old that her name means 'stupid dirty girl' on camera.
Margaret Wente: Animals are People Too
2004-07-08
Angelina Jolie has been offered Cambodian citizenship in recognition of her efforts to preserve the country's environment.
Howard Dean on Bush's war on science.
Agnostics Make the Worst Suicide Bombers
2004-07-04
Give Us Back Our Damn Flag: The leftist case for patriotism, by Peter Dreier and Dick Flacks.
The Chinese government plans to monitor and censor all telephone text messages.
Paedophiles flock to the Gambia: 'European sex tourists have been turning to the Gambia as the authorities in Thailand and the Philippines have been running vigorous campaigns to keep them off their soil.'
Dancing Saddam dolls are selling well in Baghdad.
2004-07-01
Happy Canada Day!
Saddam Hussein appears before an Iraqi court and declares, "This is all a theatre. The real criminal is Bush."
Alberta Premier Ralph Klein continues to threaten to violate the Canada Health Act by allowing private, for-profit medical clinics.
Reading: The Assassins of Tamurin, by S.D.Tower
2004-06-26
Arnold wants stray animals killed faster so he can save money.
Shell oil's chairman admits his concerns about climate change.
A federal US judge rules that 1.6 million women can take Wal-Mart to court.
Rico, a German Border collie, has a 200-word vocabulary.
2004-06-19
Conservatives aim low: Harper accuses Martin of supporting child pornography.
Oprah helps to put Tolstoy back on the US bestseller list.
Meet the Gem, the world's best-selling electric car.
McDonald's and Burger King are both being sued over the cancer-causing acrylamide in their fries.
Watch the trailer for Michael Moore's new movie Fahrenheit 9/11.
2004-06-06
Organized crime online: 'online gangsters looking to extort money use "distributed denial of service" (DDoS) attacks instead of threats of violence.'
Doug Lummis: Toward a Universal Declaration of Human Wrongs
Jennifer Lopez gets married again.
2004-05-26
The New York Times admits errors in its coverage of the Iraq war.
Amnesty International says the war on terror has made the world more dangerous.
2004-05-22
Unlike Barbara Ehrenreich, I've always known that women can be just as nasty as men, and my idea of feminism was never based on an assumption of moral superiority.
The Ontario government plans to allow private tribunals based on Sharia law.
2004-05-15
There are many unanswered questions about the murder of Nick Berg.
Greg Palast: 'If you're black, voting in America is a game of chance.'
Dick Cheney loves Wal-Mart.
Paris Hilton has her 'autobiography' read to her.
2004-05-08
Jessica & Lynndie: 'the story of two girls from the same state who symbolise a nation's loss of innocence.'
Jacob Weisberg explains how and why Bush 'chose stupidity.'
Fahrenheit 9/11 may yet find a distributor.
2004-05-06
Disney refuses to distribute Michael Moore's new documentary, Fahrenheit 911.
Opium in Afghanistan: 'Though they know it is illegal, a quarter of all Afghan farmers grow the poppies anyway.'
From Fallujah to Photos, One Fiasco After Another
2004-04-29
Senator Lautenberg's Illustrated Guide to the Chickenhawk.
George Monbiot: 'Dismissal of climate change by journalistic nincompoops is a danger to us all.'
A precedent setting case on workplace surveillance has gone to Canada's federal court.
Hundreds of thousands of abortion rights supporters marched on DC Sunday.
2004-04-11
Bush's newly released August 6, 2001 intelligence briefing warns of Al-Queda cells living in the US, preparations for hijackings, and 'recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.'
Olivia Ward: 'To lovers of good usage, clichés are the junk food of language, proof that English is going to hell in a hand basket.'
New evidence suggests people have kept cats as pets for over 9000 years.
2004-04-09
Eyeball jewellery has become a fashion trend in the Netherlands.
A secret memo sent to the press secretaries of all Republican congressmen advises them on how to deny global warming and other environmental problems.
Will file-sharing bring an end to censorship?
Dave Pollard on the questionable wisdom of the Canadian agriculture industry.
2004-04-03
Who Counts the Votes? 'Diebold's CEO, Wally O'Dell, is a proud pioneer (read: he donated more than $100,000 to the GOP's reelection bid) who has publicly announced he "is committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president."'
A newly discovered, 365-million-year-old fossil provides more clues about evolution.
Fear of fascism is causing some Americans to consider moving to Canada.
2004-03-27
A former FBI translator with top-secret security clearance told Salon that the FBI had 'detailed information prior to Sept. 11, 2001, that a terrorist attack involving airplanes was being plotted.'
ICANN meets with the UN to discuss control of the internet.
James Heflin on theocracy in America.
2004-03-21
A British wildlife study shows evidence that many species are disappearing.
Paul Krugman: 'By voting for a new government... the Spaniards were enforcing the accountability that is the essence of democracy.'
Noam Chomsky reluctantly endorses John Kerry.
2004-03-17
An Arizona student is arrested for wearing his ballcap sideways.
Amir Butler: 'In the US's financial war against terror, the collateral damage are the poor, the orphans and the children.'
Rush Limbaugh attacks the 9-11 widows.
2004-03-14
Three men released from Guantanamo Bay say they were beaten and interrogated at gunpoint.
A glitch in an e-voting machine in California may force a recount.
Thom Hartmann: 'Markets are a creation of government, just as corporations exist only by authorization of government.'
Are US forces sneaking weapons into Iraq?
2004-03-13
Chris Floyd: 'Even now, the ignorant barbarians in Washington are pushing a law through Congress that would 'acknowledge God as the sovereign source of law, liberty [and] government' in the United States.'
George Michael will release his music online for free.
The New Serfdom: 'Bush and his fat-ass corporate cronies want to privatize everything in sight.'
FBI staff keep souvenirs of 9-11.
2004-03-05
Technological advances in surveillance equipment have made privacy very difficult to come by.
The families of the victims of 9-11 want Bush to withdraw his campaign ad.
Civil rights activists in the US warn that dissent is now considered a crime.
Martha Stewart is found guilty of conspiracy, making false statements and obstruction of justice.
Teenage pregnancy a 'serious problem' in Texas.
2004-02-29
In a secret document, the Pentagon warns that climate change has the potential to kill millions.
Justin Webb: No Sex Please, We're American
2004-02-20
In San Francisco, gay marriages will continue for at least the next few weeks.
Manuel Valenzuela: 'So many of us and so few of them, yet we allow the scum of the Earth, the lowest common denominator to dictate what was, what is and what will become.'
2004-02-14
Canada's recording industry demands ISPs hand over the names of customers who upload music.
A new BBC television program gets a unique look at animals in their natural habitats by equipping them with surveillance technology.
American soldiers are accused of drowning a civilian in Iraq.
2004-02-07
Central Park zoo's gay penguins offer more evidence of homosexuality among animals.
Jonathan Manthorpe: 'Failure to show sound judgment on such a critical issue as launching a war that has already cost thousands of lives inevitably puts the broad sweep of US foreign policy at question.'
2004-02-05
Here's a disturbing rejection letter for a teaching position: '...your demeanor and therefore presence in the classroom would serve as an unrealistic expectation as to what high school students could strive to achieve or become.'
Britney wants to be the next Bond girl.
2004-02-04
37 female soldiers returning from Iraq have reported being raped by other US soldiers.
Canadians don't think much of the Bush administration: 'According to a new poll, only 15 per cent of us would vote for the President.'
A Massachusetts court has ruled in favour of gay marriage by declaring the 'civil unions' compromise unconstitutional.
Healthy twin babies have been born from embryos fertilized 12 years ago.
2004-01-31
American defense spending is set to exceed $400 billion in 2005.
A new genetically modified plant changes colour when it detects landmines in the soil below.
Another test of Diebold's e-voting machines confirms previously reported security flaws.
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense: 'Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don't hold up.'
2004-01-25
Iraqis increase their demands for a democratic election.
Bill Gates promises to wipe out spam email within two years.
The blood sport of beauty: 'Pageant-lovers insist that the modern beauty queen, like Barbie the astronaut, is a whole new brand of well-rounded, educated girl.'
2004-01-22
Maher Arar sues the US government, demanding compensation and an apology.
Yet another group of computer experts have denounced electronic voting: 'Using a voting system based upon the internet poses a serious and unacceptable risk for election fraud.'
Remembering Roe v. Wade on its 31st anniversary.
2004-01-18
The latest tragedy in Iraq leads the US to seek UN assistance.
Rosanna Arquette's upcoming documentary on the film industry describes the problems actresses over forty have finding good roles.
Arundhati Roy: 'If Saddam Hussein deserves to be humiliated and have his fillings counted and his hair checked for lice on primetime TV, then so does George Bush.'
2003: A Year in Pictures
2004-01-11
Naomi Klein: 'This was the year when fakeness ruled: fake rationales for war, a fake President dressed as a fake soldier declaring a fake end to combat and then holding up a fake turkey.'
The UK government's chief scientific adviser says US climate policy is a more serious danger to the world than terrorism.
2004-01-08
Quarantining dissent: How the Secret Service protects Bush from free speech.
Scientists warn that global warming over the next half century may cause the extinction of over a million species of plants and animals.
Keep the spooks on a short leash: 'The more information a state collects on people, the greater the likelihood it will be misused.'
400 US weapons inspectors are leaving Iraq without having found any weapons of mass destruction.
Religion vs reality: Was the Grand Canyon created by Noah's flood?