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Articles in April, 2001 issue of Report Newsmagazine, The

• The Record.(Brief Article)
• They did their duty and died; A federal report confirms the story of two trainmen who perished saving the lives of 300 passengers.(Donald Blain; Transportation Safety Board of Canada)
  by Ko, Marnie
• How to get publicity; Sending unsolicited substances in the mail now unleashes pandemonium.(Pollution Probe's clean air campaign)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
  by Ko, Marnie
• True North.(Brief Article)
• Orthodoxy; Surely religious skepticism can offer us something better than this brand of atheism.(criticising journalist Spider Robinson)(Brief Article)
• Cleansing the killing fields; Two Canadian firms engineer a machine to uproot land mines more safely and cheaply.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Byfield, Mike; Parker, Josh
• 'Hands off my mail'; The Canadian Union of Postal Workers goes to bat for 29 convicted thieves.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Schuster, Eli
• Prince George asked for it; Hedy Fry's 'burning crosses' concoction was boosted by local anti-racism hysteria.(Brief Article)
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Albertans.(hockey game raises money for charity, Harold Grace, Off Limits)(Brief Article)
• Do unto others; A businessman credits his faith for the motivation to donate millions to a shelter.(Brief Article)
  by Torrance, Kelly Jane
• A helping hand from the state; One Alberta family learns the hard way never to call the government for assistance--ever.
  by Wittmeier, Carmen
• Why Mordecai Richler doesn't speak French.(official languages)(Brief Article)
  by Albert, Lionel
• Professional sex; A disgraced Ontario physician maintains the Charter gives him the right to sleep with his patients.(Anil Mussani)(Brief Article)
  by Schuster, Eli
• 'Canada's gift' to eco-globalism; David McTaggart, once a bankrupt playboy, got rich on Greenpeace before he died.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
  by Torrance, Kelly Jane
• The word made fresh; A scholarly symposium signals a renewed appreciation of the Bible's eternal message.(translating the Septuagint)(Brief Article)
  by Dawes, David F.
• The cats of Kentville; A besieged town brings in a professionalfeline trapper.(Brief Article)
  by Townsend, Jeff
• No undue levity; Analyzing 'laugh episodes' is very serious stuff. (book review)
  by Greenfield, Nathan
• Nanton's pyramid; Townsmen scurry to save one last prairie elevator from being scrapped.(Brief Article)
  by McLean, Candis; Townsend, Jeff
• Semi-tough on immigration; Elinor Caplan is compared to Stalin for moving to deport immigrant criminals.(Canada's immigration laws)(Brief Article)
  by Stock, Peter
• Opening Shots; No matter how you slice it, it's cannibalism.(Canadian Institutes for Health Research report on stem cell research)(Brief Article)
  by Bunner, Paul
• Daddy's girl matures later; Stepfathers are shown to produce 'precocious puberty' in young girls.
  by McLean, Candis
• You sue what you eat; Food service owners are presumed at fault if customers consume needles and bandages.(Brief Article)
  by Ko, Marnie
• The Right Eye; With Manning gone, the task of reforming this country appears well nigh hopeless.(Preston Manning)(Brief Article)
  by Hunter, Ian
• The Record.(obituaries and achievements)(Brief Article)
  by Hiebert, Rick
• Renaissance 2001; A scientific revolutionary.(Jonathan Wells to speak at youth conference)(Brief Article)
  by Smithson, Carla
• Numbers.(Brief Article)
  by Byfield, Mike
• Show the truth; After a decade of defeats, Canadian pro-lifers see a resurgence of anti-abortion apologetics and youth activism as a sign of better things to come.
  by O'Neill, Terry
• After Homolka's release comes Clifford Olson's.(murderer Karla Homolka)(image of Jesus on animal rights advertising)(Brief Article)
  by Parker, Shafer
• The Right Eye; One grieving parent explains school shootings.(Columbine High School massacre)(Brief Article)
  by Hunter, Ian
• In search of democracy; Chretien's 'dictatorship' helps build momentum for reforming Canadian governance.(PM Jean Chretien)(Statistical Data Included)
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Albertans.(achievements)(Brief Article)
• Orthodoxy; A leading Bible scholar learns a lesson about the people who work in the media.(attitudes of media towards Christianity)(Brief Article)
• More power for state snoopers; A draconian Senate bill would allow Customs Canada to read outgoing international mail as well.(Brief Article)
  by Schuster, Eli
• Parade.(carpenter develops new caulking solution, entomologist helps solve crimes, woman beats the odds at slot machine)(Brief Article)
• Renaissance 2001; Real freedom, baby.(Brief Article)
• Greyhound creates a pup; Freight trailers are keeping bus service alive in Canada.(Brief Article)
  by Byfield, Mike
• Where the easy money is; lapped on the wrist, loan sharks prove that casino crime can pay.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Stock, Peter
• Letters to the Editor.
• Westview; In the next and inevitable attack on Alberta, Klein's majority could fatally deceive Ottawa.(Ralph Klein, Alberta politics)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Byfield, Ted
• Rethinking AZT; HIV experts finally admit their deadly drugs sometimes do more harm than good.(Brief Article)
  by Ko, Marnie
• Pervert no more; Thanks to Sharpe, child porn and pedophilia are nearly trendy.(John Robin Sharpe)(Brief Article)
  by Ko, Marnie
• Alberta Liberals get the blues; The province returns to its old ways, bringing MacBeth's career to a crashing halt.(Liberal leader Nancy MacBeth)
  by Cosh, Colby
• Violence breeds fear; B.C. teachers call for criminal record checks of students; a better solution might be smaller schools.(Brief Article)
  by O'Neill, Terry
• The Record.(Brief Article)
• Our own soap opera; Life and politics on the Sturgeon Lake Reserve amount to a struggle against futility.(financial mismanagement)(Illustration)
  by McLean, Candis
• Letters to the Editor.
• Scandalously porous borders; It took a whole book to describe the mess politicians have made of immigration.(Betrayal and Deceit: The Politics of Canadian Immigration by Charles M. Campbell) (book review)
  by Loney, Martin
• Business Analysis; Alberta's economic future looks stronger than ever.(natural gas industry)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Byfield, Mike
• Eclectica.(Brief Article)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• From speaker to 'stranger'; David Carter is in court challenging the use of government cash to settle Day's defamation suit.(Stockwell Day)(Brief Article)
  by Cosh, Colby
• The minority rights brigade has become a stifling mob of mental midgets.(Brief Article)
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Orthodoxy; The liberals are after Cardinal Tettamanzi for daring to suggest Evil acts intelligently.(Brief Article)
• Frankenpine is alive; You've heard the saying 'Only God can make a tree'? Don't believe it.
  by Cosh, Colby
• Diplomatic fisticuffs; The new U.S. ambassador is distinguished by his promotion of frank homosexual sex-ed.(Paul Cellucci)(Brief Article)
  by Parker, Shafer
• Watcher of the skies; Air Canada takes heat for its lousy customer service from a new--but familiar--federal official.(Air Travel Complaints Commission report)(Brief Article)
  by Cosh, Colby
• Embryo ethics; A government panel ignores better scientific alternatives to killing human lives.(Canadian Institutes of Health Research allows embryonic research)(Brief Article)
  by McGovern, Celeste
• Parade.(Brief Article)
• Brave New World.(Statistical Data Included)(Illustration)
  by McGovern, Celeste
• Opening Shots; The 'war in the woods' is not over; it is but a single skirmish in a larger culture clash.(Western Canada Wilderness Committee)(Brief Article)
  by O'Neill, Terry
• The Record.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
  by Olivier, Victor
• A curious rail alliance; An innovative co-op of unionists and farmers wants to create a regional railway.(Prairie Alliance for the Future)(Brief Article)
  by Byfield, Mike
• Who's reading your mail?The answer could be 'a lot of people from many branches of government, inside and outside Canada'.(Brief Article)
  by Cosh, Colby
• The stench from Shawinigan; No matter how stubbornly Chretien and his ethics appointee deny it, he plainly broke the rules.
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Alberta, united, can never be divided.(political homogeneity of Alberta)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Bunner, Paul
• The practical power of prayer; A Christian group says stricken communities are being rebuilt by simply inviting God in.
  by McLean, Candis
• Another police frame-up?Thatcher's acquittal of threatening a Mountie brings calls for not only a new hearing but a new trial.(Colin Thatcher)(Brief Article)
  by McLean, Candis
• Is Canada Post illegal?A little-known NAFTA clause threatens (or promises) the end of government intervention.(government subsidies may be challenged)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• The anti-Ted Gerk bill; The B.C. Liberals team up with the NDP to suppress abortion-related information.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by O'Neill, Terry
• The Record.(awards, appointments, death notices)(Brief Article)
  by Hiebert, Rick
• [0] The Record.(Brief Article)
• The Rules of love; An author's divorce indicates she's playing by the wrong ones.(Statistical Data Included)
  by McLean, Candis
• Revolt of the spud-lovers; The furor over an 'insensitive' margarine commercial reveals that it's not easy to be an adman.(Unilever Canada Ltd.'s Imperial margarine ad)(Brief Article)
  by Cosh, Colby
• Down, down, down; Day is buffeted by new humiliations as the Alliance races towards a merger with the Tories.(Stockwell Day and investigator James Leigh)(Illustration)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• Westview; Preston out of politics? My eye. We're seeing a master political stroke from a not-so-old pro.(Preston Manning)(Brief Article)
  by Byfield, Ted
• Numbers.(economy, energy, finance)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Byfield, Mike
• Procreation without sex; Scientists race to clone the first human while ethicists demand a halt.(Statistical Data Included)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• The war's over--or is it?A study suggests gun registration resistance has begun and is about to get hotter.(Statistical Data Included)
  by Parker, Shafer
• Parade.(people at work)(Brief Article)
• Not enough teachers; Ontario ponders whether U.S. competition or local mis-management explains a growing shortage.(Statistical Data Included)
  by Parker, Shafer
• Grain farmers create their own freedom trains; Saskatchewan spearheads a western shippers' drive for competition between railways.
  by Byfield, Mike

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