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Articles in August, 2000 issue of Report Newsmagazine, The

• Myth of matriarchal prehistory.
• Criminals with lots of balls.
  by Marnie Ko
• Putting the squeeze on manure: a smell-reducing processor offers hope for intensive livestock operations.
  by Mike Byfield
• Hotter and nastier with age: punk rocker turned Liberal propagandist Warren Kinsella spews invective everywhere.
  by Kevin Michael Grace
• Lactation nation: Canada's last human milk bank may be forced to close by budget cuts.
  by Colby Cosh
• Why buy the cow -- ? A new Swedish rival throws the trend toward free newspapers into high gear.
  by Colby Cosh
• It gets easier with practice: a Canadian psychiatrist testifies that abortion led a woman to murder her four children.
  by Celeste McGovern
• Canada's Indian Tiger (six-year-old represents Canada at the U.S. Kids World Championship).
• Kill the sperm, spare the virus: spermacide-coated condoms may help spread HIV, and another `safe-sex' innovation falls into disrepute.
  by Marnie Ko
• Love me, love my dog: in a society of solitudes, pets increasingly fulfill needs unmet by human beings.
  by Candis McLean
• Missing the point: an economist argues that political cronyism isn't the worst problem with HRDC job grants.
  by Colby Cash
• Hockey hits a high C (collaborators write an opera based on hockey fans).
• (David) Suzuki's Toyota: can the eco-star interest consumers in the overpriced, underpowered Prius?
  by Terry O'Neill
• To see what happens when ideological fanatics are in control, meet the Cleary family.
  by Michael Coren
• Golden years, golden fears: if you're one of those irresponsible people with no real savings plan - relax.
  by Mike Byfield
• Problem for the Grits: the B.C. NDP's push for same-sex marriage could play into (Stockwell) Day's hands.
  by Terry O'Neill
• Side effects of antidepressants.
• No one trusts parents: European home-schoolers face open persecution, while low-level harassment in Canada shifts departments.
  by Les Sillars
• Grandma in a short skirt: the operator of a Vancouver brothel aims to overturn Canada's prostitution laws.
  by Terry O'Neill
• Speaking their language: (Stockwell) Day gets noticed in Quebec, but a pact with the Bloc seems unlikely.
  by Kevin Michael Grace
• Apology and retraction.
• Cute polar bears versus `blood' diamonds.
  by Mike Byfield
• Wanted, dead or alive -- Ontario's new organ donation law points toward presumed consent.
  by Shafer Parker
• Designer democracy isn't freedom.
  by Shafer Parker
• If (Stockwell) Day's foray was a fishing trip he came back with some pretty big fish.
  by Ted Byfield
• Making fun of Jesus: a B.C. amusement park knew it was mocking Christian belief, but proceeded regardless.
  by Rick Hiebert
• Izzy Asper's harmonic convergence: only a Liberal could have pulled off the biggest media concentration in Canadian history.
  by Mike Byfield
• Third time unlucky? In Edmonton West, Justice Minister (Anne) McLellan is hanging by a thread, and the CA would love to cut it.
  by Carla Smithson
• Toughest firewoman in the world.
• Lessons in manners: biologists are trying high-tech `aversion therapy' to reduce predator attacks.
  by Shafer Parker
• Sadness of the Harts: Bret may be leaving wrestling and the grand old patriarch is facing financial ruin.
  by Candis McLean
• Some outrages aren't newsworthy.
• When the Liberals start shooting at Stockwell (Day) instead of each other, they'll miss by a country mile.
  by Link Byfield
• Closet for their enemies: but despite the ire of gay activists, a dwindling few doctors still attempt to cure homosexualtiy.
  by Marnie Ko
• Discovered or rediscovered? New evidence reveals Vikings may not have been the first Europeans to land on Newfoundland.
  by Kevin Steel
• Bubble for the pricking: pro-lifers say it's clear that no-protest zones are about stiffling free speech, not public safety.
  by Terry O'Neill
• Can the Alliance win in Quebec?
  by Kevin Michael Grace
• Times discloses a frightful reality: Christian books outsell everything else.
  by Ted Byfield; Virginia Byfield
• It's not for everyone: laser eye surgery is no quick fix and not suitable for all that want it.
  by Kevin Michael Grace
• Criminals, but not gangsters: defence lawyers cheer as prosecutors abandon Canada's new anti-gang law.
  by Paul Bunner
• Painting in the top 1% (Calgary artist's work selected for the United Nations Millennium Art Exhibition).
• Useful at last: a think-tank is pulling mathematicians into something they've always resisted - practical applications.
  by Colby Cash
• Ruling as they please: new laws concentrate more power in the prime minister and his cabinet.
  by Mike Byfield
• Cadillac campaign in Edmonton.
  by Carla Smithson
• Skaters' good dream (mother opens a skateboard store).
• `Medical carousel': Canadian medicare should reimburse poor countries when it takes their doctors, says one who left.
  by Colby Cosh
• Bret (Hart) says wrestling has lost its melodramatic fun.
• Revolution gone bust: despite court victories, Canadian women are keeping their breasts covered on the beach.
  by Terry O'Neill
• Nomination machinations: candidates and voters flock to Alliance meetings, and the winners will define the new party.
  by Paul Bunner
• Downside of drugs: today's antidepressants are killing patients, a growing number of critics charge.
  by Marnie Ko
• Home-schooling forces us to reconsider whether God should have been expelled from public school.
  by Ian Hunter
• Child's right to sell her body: when a judge struck down Alberta's child-hooker law, she cast doubt on all intervention.
  by Colby Cosh
• Those who would rather die.
  by Shafer Parker
• Sydney (Sharpe), dear, has it occurred to you that the one doing the imposing is yourself?
  by Ted Byfield
• Net for fishers of men: a new Canadian Web site hopes to draw Christians together.
  by Carla Smithson
• Smashing the diamond cartel: Canadian gems and expertise have broken De Beers' grip on the world market.
  by Mike Byfield
• When push comes to shove: Indian radicalism is set for a showdown with popular opinion and the Alliance party.
  by Terry O'Neill
• Protection against Internet predators.
• Forever young: hair colouring for men goes mainstream as the boomers find a new tonic against aging.
  by Kevin Michael Grace
• Too risky for Toronto.
  by Marianne Meed Ward
• Not the end of the world.
• Fatherneed: why father care is as essential as mother care for your child.
• Good that evil does: the Pine Lake tornado raised ultimate questions for those who suffered it.
  by Shafer Parker
• There's more to retirement than housing.
• Bringing life to the right: Stockwell Day is credited with inspiring a fledgling B.C. alliance to adopt an anti-abortion plank.
  by Terry O'Neill
• Most sensible approach to the new gun registry is to ignore it and vote Alliance.
  by Link Byfield
• Compassionate refuge next door to (Dr. Henry) Morgentaler.
  by Carla Smithson
• Religious Jews and Christians are politically suspect, says the Globe, and must be watched.
  by Ted Byfield; Virginia Byfield
• New county rule hogties livestock expansions.
• New wild card in the Senate: the defection of a Tory senator presents the Alliance with a dilemma - and fresh opportunities.
  by Terry O'Neill
• Rethinking marijuana.
  by Shafer Parker
• No smoke, no bingo: Waterloo Region's draconian new bylaw leaves charities sick.
  by Marianne Meed Ward
• Straw comes on strong: energy-efficient bale houses are gaining acceptance among people who like their walls thick.
  by Mike Byfield
• Criminal convictions: pro-choicers vainly attempt to blame free speech for the attack on a Vancouver abortionist.
  by Terry O'Neill
• Incense and peppermints (Vancouver artist is enjoying a rebirth of interest in his legendary music posters).
• `Where do you live?' Pedophiles are using the Internet to hunt for their underaged prey.
  by Marnie Ko
• Instead of letting women go semi-nude in public, let's ask men to stop doing it too.
  by Mariette Ulrich
• Trust us: it's fairly safe: rural Ontarians vow to stop Toronto from dumping garbage in a leaky local mine.
  by Marianne Meed Ward
• Ted Turner's gift to mankind: the UN is still pursuing global peace, even if it has to start a global religion to get it.
  by Shafer Parker
• Lawyer in Edmonton will teach peacemaking.
  by Carla Smithson

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