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Articles in February, 2003 issue of Report, The

• Catholics versus a CBC producer.
  by Stock, Peter
• Drive against distraction: Newfoundland bans hand-held cellphones in cars, and other provinces could follow.
  by Lott, Jeremy
• (Scare in Texas over disappearanc of bubonic plague).
  by McGovern, Celeste
• Economy (Canada signs free trade agreement with the EU).
  by Byfield, Mike
• Why medicare cannot possibly stop the brain drain.
  by Byfield, Mike
• (Stem cell research).
  by McGovern, Celeste
• Health (36 dogs seized from a puppy mill in Port Alberni, B.C.).
  by Byfield, Mike
• Filmmaking revolution: Toronto's Alias/Wavefront wins an Oscar for its breakthrough animation software.
  by Hiebert, Rick
• (Environics polls show political support across Canada).
  by Stock, Peter
• Flying `Uke-a-mo' from Rankin Inlet: overcoming tragedy, junior hockey player Jordin Tootoo has become a role model at 20.
  by Steel, Kevin
• We've reached the next stage - working for solutions.
  by Byfield, Link
• Stress: from symptoms to syndromes.
• (Statistics Canada's new poverty measurement).
  by Stock, Peter
• Running on empty (gasoline and natural gas price fixing in Newfoundland).
  by Cosh, Colby
• Despite the (Michael John) Hamdami hoax, Canada still exports terrorists to America.
  by Malkin, Michelle
• One flap at a time: the whooping crane, saved from extinction, is re-taught how to migrate across North America.
  by Heibert, Rick
• Gene therapy: the promise has faded fast.
  by McGovern, Celeste
• Society (HurryDate).
  by Byfield, Mike
• One-way flight to America: talented Canadian migrate south for better pay and professional opportunities.
  by Ko, Marnie
• School video games for boys? Heaven forbid! But then just how do you educate boys?
  by Byfield, Ted
• Your new kidney? It's coming off the printer.
  by McGovern, Celeste
• Scandal (Canadian Dental Association and the Dental Association of Canada).
  by Byfield, Mike
• Nanaimo becomes a Vancouver suburb: a new fast-cat ferry service will slash the time and cost of daily commuting from Vancouver Island to the mainland.
  by Byfield, Mike
• (Liberal government set to announce billions in spending).
  by Stock, Peter
• Official Canada still obsesses about race while telling us to be colour-blind.
  by O'Neill, Terry
• (1906 census will finally be released).
• Call to green more land: the B.C. Liberals resist the expansion of Waterton Lakes National Park.
  by Stock, Peter
• (Toronto Star editorial in defence of the federal gun registry).
  by Cosh, Colby
• Foundations for the future: a back-to-the-basics charter academy in Calgary is sparking change in mainstream schools.
  by McLean, Candis
• Mighty Google: the world's most popular Internet search engine faces the censors.
  by Lott, Jeremy
• Dash for Internet gold: rural Canada gains from a race between powerful companies and new technologies.
  by Byfield, Mike
• Entertainment and publishing (Nickelback's song most-played song on American radio).
  by Byfield, Mike
• Right man: the surprise presidency of George W. Bush.
• New technology helps the elderly: high-tech inventions give seniors more independence but less privacy.
  by Ko, Marnie
• Scandal (charities see little of money raised).
  by Byfield, Mike
• Man does not live by pensions alone (Frank Wiens).
  by Byfield, Mike
• (2001 census reveals a growing trend toward claiming themselves as Canadian).
  by Stock, Peter
• Cuss control: the complete book on how to curb your cursing.
• Fix he broken windows: as NYC shows, the solution to subway crime in not `root causes' but `no tolerance'.
  by Champion, Chris
• (Gordon) Campbell should not resign. But if the worst happens, his party has time to recover.
  by O'Neill, Terry
• (Italian community in Trail, British Columbia).
  by Cosh, Colby
• (Teacher refuses to accept drug related art from students).
  by Cosh, Colby
• Street people in mink: an animal-rights group gives fur coats to Toronto's homeless.
  by Lott, Jeremy
• (Ralph) Klein is failing to protect property rights.
  by Byfield, Mike
• Entertainment and publishing (J.R.R. Tolkien would have been 111 birthday on January 3).
  by Byfield, Mike
• Church builders, please note: if everybody is welcome, then nobody is interested.
  by Byfield, Ted; Byfield, Virginia
• Some cures are sickening: physicians soul-search preventive medicines after the too-rapid rise of hormone replacement therapy.
  by Cosh, Colby
• Economy (Stephen Roach predicts a small 2% growth for the US economy).
  by Byfield, Mike
• Canada's two-tier retirement system: civil servants do a lot better than most taxpayers when it comes to pension goodies.
  by Byfield, Mike
• Canadians don't know Jack (Layton).
  by Stock, Peter
• (Rumour about Tim Horton's).
  by Cosh, Colby
• One woman's road to fulfillment (Correna Schwab).
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Tax-funded radical agenda: an environmental youth charity won't rule out violence for political ends.
  by Stock, Peter
• There's no town `square' here, man.
  by Cosh, Colby
• West Edmonton malfeasance: an out-of-court deal ends a legal saga that ensnared (Ralph) Klein and the Ghermezians.
  by Cosh, Colby
• Stand and fight, or run for cover? B.C. parents ponder questions affecting the future of all public education.
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Biology (Brent Kuntz shoots a world record elk).
  by Byfield, Mike
• Ranchers scrape through: a massive and greatly-feared cattle-feed shortage has been avoided on the prairies.
  by Byfield, Mike
• Terror weapons, just war: mainline Canadian religious leaders come out swinging against war in Iraq.
  by Lott, Jeremy
• When utopia becomes dystopia.
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Energy (crude oil prices up).
  by Byfield, Mike
• Our future depends on reform, not an American rescue.
  by Byfield, Mike
• What $1 billion actually bought.
  by Ko, Marnie
• (Bernardin Ltd. listens to its customers).
  by Cosh, Colby
• Welfare that works: B.C. is balancing social and personal responsibility in its successful dole-reform program.
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Gun registry still shoots blanks: the feds try to fix the costly system, but we'll never know its true effectiveness.
  by Steel, Kevin
• Where's the rest of me? (Soap Lake, Washington's giant lava lamp).
  by Cosh, Colby
• In the interminable Middle East war, one fact remains hard to ignore.
  by Hunter, Ian
• Three days in June: how the provinces played a key role in scuttling (Jean) Chretien's 1969 white paper on Indians.
  by Steel, Kevin
• Health (study finds alcohol consumption lowers risk of heart attack).
  by Byfield, Mike
• Cute critters, ugly problem: federal restrictions on strychnine, the only effective poison, have bred a gopher plague.
  by L'Abbee, Myriam
• Crack mom is still a mom: a new program for drug-addicted mothers gives both parent and baby a better chance.
  by Ko, Marnie
• Blame the time cruch for the `birth dearth' too.
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Health (drug derived from the spit of vampire bats helps those who have had a stroke).
  by Byfield, Mike
• Why Canada drifts towards a union with the U.S.
  by Bliss, Michael
• Cops, meals and doctors: what else could have been bought with the $1 billion spent on the gun registry?
  by Ko, Marnie
• Fly me to the moon (Moller International's flying car).
  by Cosh, Colby
• (John) Manley reaches out and touches a bank president (John Hunkin).
  by Stock, Peter
• (Human Rights Commission in Saskatchewan successful in making province remove restrictions on disability payments to alcoholics).
  by Cosh, Colby
• Canada cannot be fixed unless it is first broken.
  by Byfield, Link

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