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Articles in January, 2001 issue of Report Newsmagazine, The

• An army retrenches; Sally Ann marches into the 21st century with a new mandate to demilitarize itself.(Salvation Army)(Brief Article)
  by Cosh, Colby
• Web of kindness; An economics student turns a brainstorm into a boon for Canadian charities.(Brief Article)
  by Cosh, Colby
• Clinton's quandary; Is Leonard Peltier, extradited from Canada, an Indian hero who should be freed, or a murderous thug?
  by Parker, Shafer
• Opening Shots; What happens when prisoners have to shave.(correctional services legislation, Ontario)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
  by Parker, Shafer
• The Record.
  by Olivier, Victor
• Business Analysis; How the big-name brands were whipped by a ham.(David Nichol)(Brief Article)
  by Byfield, Mike
• Armed robbery by phone; An inventive bandit avoids the hassle of personal confrontation.(Brief Article)
  by Schuster, Eli
• Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
• Speak_your_mind.com; A Web site popular with Vancouver students has teachers crying 'hate'.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
  by Torrance, Kelly Jane
• Guest Column; When you get to know the mentally handicapped, you begin to see we're all impaired.(Brief Article)(Column)
  by Coren, Michael
• A home of their own; B.C. considers an innovative centre for prisoners affected by Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.(Brief Article)
  by McLean, Candis
• The West as spoiled teenager; Chretien adds insult to injury by saying the region that rejected him needs 'tough love.'.(Jean Chretien's approach to Western Canada)(Brief Article)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• Albertans.(Shelby Cummings, Noburu Kubo, Craig Richards)(Brief Article)
• Terror in the Bay of Fundy; A sea-urchin diver nearly succumbs to a frenzied porbeagle shark.(Brief Article)
  by Ko, Marnie
• Code of silence; Alleged intimidation of witnesses in the Air India bombing could sabotage the trial.(Brief Article)
  by Torrance, Kelly Jane
• Guest Column; Lessons to contemplate as we spend four more years in political purgatory.(Western Canada)(Brief Article)(Column)
  by Morrison, Lee
• Albertans.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
• Speak now or forever hold your peace; A Toronto pastor bids to perform Canada's first legally valid homosexual 'marriages'.(Brief Article)
  by Schuster, Eli
• Guest column; A young religious skeptic offers churches a startling suggestion to attract youth.(Brief Article)
  by Hunter, Ian
• Don't let anyone vote on it; The abortion issue scares another politician away from his commitment to democratic reforms.(Gordon Campbell decides not to hold referendum on abortion)(Brief Article)
  by O'Neill, Terry
• The best news editor in Canada; Martin Lynch, a behind-the-scenes newspaper legend, dies at his remote B.C. home.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
  by Hiebert, Rick
• Brave New World.
  by McGovern, Celeste
• The case for more carbon dioxide; Man-made CO2 may or may not warm the globe but it dramatically improves plant growth.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Byfield, Mike
• Guest Column; In comfortably numb Canada, we prefer our politicians to be incompetent and corrupt.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)(Column)
  by Hunter, Ian
• True North.(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
• Opening Shots; The premier goes to the Punjab, leaving us to wonder what he has up his political sleeve.(Ujjal Dosanjh)(Brief Article)
  by O'Neill, Terry
• The Record.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
• Get the shot or get fired; Toronto paramedics are told to take flu vaccine despite its questionable effectiveness.(Brief Article)
  by Ko, Marnie
• No special gay right to obscenity; The Supreme Court rejects the homosexual community's bid to set its own standards.
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Letter From the Publisher; Time really does bestow honour on some things, even if they are a bit bloody.(author and his son to fur trapping)(Brief Article)
  by Byfield, Link
• Ralph Klein, closet Liberal; Did Premier Klein cut spending to slay the welfare state? Quite the contrary, say two U of C academics.(Governing in Post-Deficit Times: Alberta in the Klein Years) (book review)
  by Robson, John
• Seeing is believing; Far from disproving the miraculous Christian story, science is increasingly stumped.(research into artifacts of Christ's life)
  by Parker, Shafer
• Justice as therapy; McLellan steers a touchy-feely course between incarceration and legalization on drug policy.(Anne McLellan)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Cosh, Colby
• Sell, obey or defy; Gun owners face hard choices as the January 1 licensing deadline arrives.(gun registration)(Brief Article)
  by O'Neill, Terry
• [0] The Record.(Brief Article)
• Character, not cleverness; A fourth-century priest has words of wisdom for twenty-first century parents.(Brief Article)
  by McLean, Candis
• Alberta's self-inflicted crisis; The government's costly electricity fiasco provides a national example of how not to deregulate electricity.
  by Byfield, Mike
• Two million criminals?Canada's new gun licensing law takes effect amid the usual blizzard of uncertainties.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Parker, Shafer
• The Record; Rick Hiebert.(people in the news)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
• Please fix the world; Children ask Santa for more than mere toys.(Brief Article)
  by Smid, Madelon A.
• Numbers.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Byfield, Mike
• First to the judge, then the doctor; A lawsuit won by autistic children has left courts deciding medical spending.
  by Cosh, Colby
• Letter from the Publisher; 'I love you, Gladys--let's enter into a Registered Domestic Partnership'.(defining marriage)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
  by Byfield, Link
• The Record.
• Marketplace of ideas; A University of Manitoba professor seeks to open ivory towers to new and vitalizing forces.(tenure)(Brief Article)
  by McLean, Candis
• Radiation: cure or cause?A controversial expert blames medical technology for 75% of new cancers.(Brief Article)
  by Ko, Marnie
• Where are the triplets?A devastated father waits for word on his kidnapped 8-year-olds, while police look west for their abductor.
  by Ko, Marnie
• Letters to the editor; Come back, Preston Manning.
• Westview; The vote left the West with four options,--of one, we should be acutely aware.(Canadian federal election)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Byfield, Ted
• Orthodoxy; If politics clouds Christmas, take heart--nations come and go; Christmas remains.(Brief Article)(Column)
• Changing the rules; A mother 'crosses' the hazy line between corporal punishment and illegal abuse.(Brief Article)
  by Ko, Marnie
• Smeared and abandoned; A transcript of Betty Granger's remarks shows she was running for a party of cowards.(candidate withdraws after politically incorrect statement)(Brief Article)
  by McLean, Candis
• Parade.(cases)(People)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Opening Shots; Rick Mercer should be run out on a rail.(Canadian Alliance party and Stockwell Day)(Brief Article)
  by Bunner, Paul
• Brave New World.
  by McGovern, Celeste
• Judgment Day.(Brief Article)
  by Carpay, John
• The medicare morass; Nearly half of Canadians support two-tier medicine. So why does not one federal political party?(Statistical Data Included)
  by Cosh, Colby
• Parade.(parenting, book about Christmas, machine to clean hockey gear)(Brief Article)
• Give 'em an inch; Saskatchewan school trustees decide that metric-only students cannot function in the real world.(industry and economy use imperial measurements)(Brief Article)
  by Cosh, Colby
• The feds muscle the construction trades; Canada Revenue claims priority over builder's liens.(federal government)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Byfield, Mike
• The Zalm rides right; B.C.'s never-say-die ex-premier oversees the birth of a new socially conservative party.(Bill Vander Zalm and Unity Party of British Columbia)(Brief Article)
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Opening Shots; Last of a conservative breed.(National Post no longer conservative herald)(Brief Article)(Column)
  by Parker, Shafer
• Ralph Klein, closet Liberal; Did Premier Klein cut spending to slay the welfare state? Quite the contrary, say two U of C academics. (book review)
  by Robson, John
• Westview; Of the West's four options, the first two take us down the path of Atlantic Canada.(Canada and the west)(Brief Article)
  by Byfield, Ted
• Guest column; If we could of went to smarter schools, we wouldn't of spent so long learning to write proper.(Brief Article)
  by Ulrich, Mariette
• Zero tolerance for teen angst; A minor is charged after giving voice to a common youthful fantasy.(Brief Article)
  by Schuster, Eli
• From pillar to Post; Stockwell Day's leadership is assailed by Ontario Tories and their newspaper.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• Opening Shots; Read and circulate this book on the NDP disaster--lest we forget.(Barbarians in the Garden City: The BC NDP in Power) (book review)
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Beatles forever; The Fab Four have gone from pop sensation to cultural artifact.(Brief Article)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• Kamloops prepares for take off; The city has reforged its future in the teeth of economic blows and NDP misgovernment.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Byfield, Mike
• B.C.'s other separatist movement; Greater Vancouver municipalities revolt against the regional government's transit tax.(Brief Article)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• 'The right to a fair trial'; Employers and workers argue over recommendations in two damning reports on the WCB.(Alberta Workers' Compensation Board)
  by McLean, Candis
• Orthodoxy; A left-wing editor ponders a baffling question: why is youth captivated by this iron-law Pope?(youth and religion)(Brief Article)
• The age of anxiety; Ordinary children today are more fearful than psychiatric patients were in the 1950s.
  by McLean, Candis
• Eclectica.(Brief Article)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• True North.(churches in Lamont County, winner of stock trading competition, veterinarian reprimanded by professional association)(Brief Article)
• For the love of Raquel; A B.C. woman may be near the end of her long fight to win back custody of her daughter.(Munchausen Syndrome case)
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Eclectica.(Brief Article)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• Set tasers on 'stun'; A new electric weapon may soon supercede the old police billy club.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Schuster, Eli
• Disunited Alternative; Provincial Tories blame 'social conservatism' for the Alliance failure in Ontario.(poor showing of Canadian Alliance in election)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael

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