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Thursday, 24 October 2002

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Health care in danger from different visions, Romanow says
Ottawa must ensure the provinces all have the same ideas about health care or else the system could crash, says Roy Romanow, who heads a Royal Commission looking into medicare. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

Good. Romanow's got it right.

< 10:57:54 PM>.

The luck of the audacious Despite having just won the prestigious Booker prize, Yann Martel still sees himself as a novice, writes SANDRA MARTIN
By SANDRA MARTIN
-- A few days before he won the & 50,000 ($121,000) Man Booker prize for Life of Pi, Yann Martel joked that he would like to show up at the gala wearing a tiger skin in homage to one of the characters in his novel. At the very least, he wanted to rent a dinner jacket emblazoned with orange and black stripes. In the end, tradition almost won out. He arrived at the gala at London's British Museum Tuesday night wearing the customary tuxedo and white shirt, but then he added his own inimitable touch -- a geranium-red bow tie. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

< 10:53:15 PM>.

Take back the waterfront The rich and powerful seem determined to rob Toronto of its finest asset. But as LISA ROCHON writes, enlightened designers from around the globe give renewed hope that a better way forward is possible

By LISA ROCHON
-- With little prodding, Toronto has become the meeting place it was named for, where people from around the world have settled, and a youth culture of rockers, wiggers and ravers can hang out and chill. All of this should add up to a happy cohabitation, except that the city is under attack by the Goths. We have them to thank for the medieval negotiations leading toward the redevelopment of Union Station. The Goths are ramming through the expansion of the Toronto Island Airport. And the Goths are robbing the city of its waterfront. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

< 4:22:15 PM>.

Canadian companies criticized for mining operations in Congo
In a new report to the United Nations Security Council, a UN panel named five Canadian companies as being involved in the "mineral rape" of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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