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Articles in March, 2003 issue of Report, The

• School reform has worked well in Alberta.
  by Paul Bunner
• Under the present rules, Canada is dommed. So let's change the rules!
  by Byfield, Link
• (Number of Oregonians who died by government-sponsored euthanasia rose 80% last year).
  by Celeste McGovern
• Health (World Vision reports more than 13 million children have become orphans due to HIV/AIDS).
  by Myriam L'Abbee
• (One of the fastest growing area of spending is Parliament itself).
  by Peter Stock
• Billion-dollar friendship: Federal Liberal gifts have created a cozy friendship with B.C. Grits, but basic grievances remain unresolved.
  by Terry O'Neill
• Seniors prepare for a drug war (cross-border pharmacy sales).
  by Colby Cosh
• (Jessica Santillan dies after being given the wrong organs in an organ transplant).
  by Celeste McGovern
• Pet a whale, go to jail: criminal charges are brought against wildlife lovers in Canada and the U.S.
  by Kevin Steel
• Society (only 116 of Alberta's 4,700 children up for adoption found homes).
  by Mike Byfield
• Defending self-defence: store owners that fight back against armed robbers sometimes face the wrath of the police as well.
  by Jeremy Lott
• (Jean) Chretien just might call an election yet.
  by Peter Stock
• (Royal Military College's hockey game).
  by Colby Cosh
• Possibilities for `a more perfect union': it's easy enough to pronounce Canadian confederation a flop. The bigger question is: `What will replace it?".
  by Wagner, Michael
• Swiss voters govern Switzerland.
  by Cosh, Colby
• Powerful symbol of weakness: the nearly inoperable Sea King helicopter illustrates what ails Canada's military.
  by Chris Champion
• How keen the liberal media are to protect free speech - so long as they like the speaker.
  by Ted Byfield
• Pain problem: when does a child feel it? (Susan Greenfield's research finds that a fetus may feel pain before 24 weeks gestation).
  by Celeste McGovern
• Food processing (Molson Inc. is in the process of halving its work force).
  by Myriam L; '; Abbee
• (John Manley's federal budget).
  by Peter Stock
• Where there's smoke: a tobacco company is charged with plotting massive cigarette smuggling.
  by Rick Hiebert
• (Mental-health court in British Columbia).
  by Colby Cosh
• (IVF paternity case).
  by Celeste McGovern
• Federal rules threaten placer mining: exceedingly tough pollution standards could wipe out a venerable Yukon and B.C. tradition.
  by Rick Hiebert
• Science & technology (George Kirczenow comes up with a single-molecule device capable of acting as an electrical switch in a computer).
  by Mike Byfield
• Grits now fear recall: B.C. voters use their right to unseat MLAs to establish an effective opposition.
  by Jeremy Lott
• Bible is censored in Saskatchewan.
  by Kevin Michael Grace
• Cloud of unknowing (polygamist marriage).
  by Colby Cosh
• From the ground up (Alberta's Progressive Conservatives rebuild).
  by Steel, Kevin
• European role model for Canada: a multilingual federation of autonomous provinces that don't entirely trust each other. It's called Switzerland - and it works.
  by Cosh, Colby
• Military needs more than a few good men.
  by Peter Stock
• Why our freedoms can only be defended by clear-thinking, courageous citizens.
  by Byfield, Mike
• Reaction from our readers to refederation has been enthusiastic in the West.
  by Kevin Avram
• Many poisons are healthy - to a point: the frequent alarms over very low-dosage contaminant exposures now appear unscientific.
  by Colby Cosh
• Food processing (infectious protein responsible for mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can survive a bath of formaldehde and boiling heat).
  by Myriam L'Abbee
• (Government facing increasing criticism over Bill C-25).
  by Peter Stock
• Edmontosis of Ralph's world: the Klein regime has been taken over by freer-spending northerners.
  by Ric Dolphin
• (Talisman Energy Inc, is not completing the divestiture of assets in Sudan).
  by Colby Cosh
• (Woman wins right to end her former partner's status as legal father to her test-tube baby).
  by Celeste McGovern
• If the CBC is 'ours,' let the audience control it.
  by Mariette Ulrich
• Careers (working at home is on the increase).
  by Mike Byfield
• Ottawa's lack of respect alienates the provinces.
  by Terry O'Neill
• Media lynches an innocent couple (Norah and Bob Walker): two disturbed eccentrics (Roger Thibault,Theo Wouters) launch police, journalists and protesters against a quiet family.
  by Marnie Ko
• No short-term pain, no long-term gain? (Government agrees to look at "tax-prepaid savings plans).
  by Colby Cosh
• Clear question, clear majority (Canada's Clarity Act).
  by Steel, Kevin
• Power of direct democracy: Americans keep local governments more in line on spending.
  by Lott, Jeremy
• Productivity challenge: the growing U.S. economic lead signals a pressing need for reform in Canada.
  by Byfield, Mike
• As Christians discover the merit of fasting, observing Lent is making a major comeback.
  by Ted Byfield; Virginia Byfield
• Finance (the Supreme Court of Canada rules that a debt owed to the federal government is void if Ottawa has not attempted to collect it for six years).
  by Myriam L'Abbee
• Food processing (meat processing problems).
  by Myriam L'Abbee
• Even in Quebec, many favour a U.S. union (Jonathan Wheelwright wants to eliminate the border between Canada and the United States).
  by Peter Stock
• Free-speech defenders (Jennifer Pike) on the left are all too eager to muzzle their adversaries on the right.
  by Terry O'Neill
• How to buy back your own stuff (California airports use eBay to sell items confiscated from passengers).
  by Colby Cosh
• (Dolly, the first cloned sheep, is dead).
  by Celeste McGovern
• You may believe whatever you like, Mr. Owens, just don't tell anyone - this is Canada.
  by Ian Hunter
• Careers (Alberta is training 20% of Canada's apprentices).
  by Mike Byfield
• How to make $45 billion of workers' cash disappear.
  by Terry O'Neill
• High court imposes racial profiling: an Ontario ruling cites `systemic discrimination' as a legal reason to reduce criminal sentences for blacks.
  by Kevin Steel
• (Private school Strathcona-Tweedsmuir High School in Calgary rated #1 by the Fraser Institute).
  by Colby Cosh
• How to force the issue: nothing prevents provinces from talking and acting on refederation, given strong leadership.
  by Steel, Kevin
• Politicians who don't act like puppets: the U.S. has a federal government of independent legislators and effective regional representation.
  by Lott, Jeremy
• We gave it out best shots: the history of western reform movements demonstrates that Ottawa will not listen.
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Painkiller purified from venom: move over, morphine - here comes the puffer fish (Frank Shum's puffer fish research).
  by Myriam L'Abbee
• Finance (Club Med selling it's indoor destination in Montreal).
  by Myriam L'Abbee
• Crime (U.S. aid to Colombia results in 15% reduction in acreage devoted to coca, the source of cocaine).
  by Myrian L'Abbee
• Gun-control spending defies Parliament's rule.
  by Lee Morrison
• Freedom champion from Corner Brook: Fraser Institute founder Michael Walker's Newfie roots inspired his nation-altering crusade for sound economics.
  by Kevin Steel
• Allure of torture (U.S. treatment of terrorists).
  by Colby Cosh
• PETA portrays human victims as pigs.
  by Celeste McGovern
• Refederation: a cure for the confederal blues?
  by Paul Bunner
• Careers (public respect for some professions has fallen).
  by Mike Byfield
• Big government just got a lot bigger: the new Liberal budget signals a 20% increase in federal spending - and blatant intrusion into provincial affairs.
  by Terry O'Neill
• Love, that unscientific stuff which leads to the really important victories.
  by Mike Byfield
• (Botox update).
  by Colby Cosh
• Atlantic Canadians are starting to see that federal 'generosity' is pure poison.
  by Crowley, Brian Lee
• While we're reforming, let's give power and initiative to local communities.
  by Gibbins, Roger
• Tax-funded legal lobbying has changed Canada.
  by Byfield, Joanne
• Tangled web of embryo adoption (Karen and Paul Bentham donate their embryos to Kate and Steve Johnson).
  by Celeste McGovern
• Finance (Terry Matthews loses US$4 billion when French telecom company Alcatel stocks collapse).
  by Myriam L'Abbee
• Crime (thieves pull off largest safe deposit heist ever).
  by Myriam L'Abbee

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