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Carbon Tax, Bring It Onnew

Quebec's bold move leaves Ontario (and America) in the dust as a transformative eco tax forces polluters to cough up.

NOW Magazine | Wayne Roberts | 06-22-2006 | Environment

Tags: environment

Harper's Wedding Gamblenew

Why the Prime Minister's free vote on marital rights won't take the cake.

NOW Magazine | Andrew Cash | 06-22-2006 | LGBT

Tags: gay & lesbian issues

It's horrifying to think that homegrown terrorists would plot to bomb targets here in Toronto -- but if you read between the lines of the police version and the media's presentation of events, questions abound.

NOW Magazine | Staff | 06-08-2006 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice

Organic Delusionsnew

Wal-Mart will be stunned to learn it can't market non-chem veggies like widgets.

NOW Magazine | Wayne Roberts | 06-08-2006 | Business & Labor

Tags: walmart

When Truth Doesn't Paynew

Activists can't agree on whether corporate disclosure of factory locations and conditions actually cleans up sweatshops.

NOW Magazine | Adria Vasil | 06-01-2006 | Business & Labor

Tags: business & labor

Where Enron Failednew

The jury findings are all about corporate accountability to shareholders, but not to the rest of us.

NOW Magazine | Wayne Roberts | 06-01-2006 | Business & Labor

Tags: business & labor

Let Kyoto Go?new

Enviros might consider how climate-saving could be instigated outside of Kyoto -- a process that can now be judged as going nowhere fast.

NOW Magazine | Wayne Roberts | 05-25-2006 | Environment

Tags: environment

Fast Times at Machine Gun Highnew

The stretched Canadian armed forces quietly lure high-schoolers with promise of credits and cash.

NOW Magazine | Andrew Cash | 05-25-2006 | War

Tags: military, recruiting

AWOL GIs Dealt Legal Blownew

The latest court decision in Canada leaves refugee claims of Iraq war refuseniks in doubt.

NOW Magazine | Matt Mernagh | 05-18-2006 | War

Tags: Iraq, WAR, in

From Field To Prophetnew

John Kenneth Galbraith learned his Canuck-style radical economics down on the farm.

NOW Magazine | Wayne Roberts | 05-11-2006 | Economy

Tags: Economic Issues

Bio-Med Backtracknew

University of Toronto appears to be backing off its relationship with Battelle Memorial Institute, a major Pentagon contractor in the chemical warfare field -- was it peace activists that did it in?

NOW Magazine | Paul Weinberg | 05-04-2006 | War

Tags: war & peace