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Articles in December, 2002 issue of Report Newsmagazine, The

• The price of revenge; Custodial parents who poison their children's affections may now face legal problems.
  by McLean, Candis
• Hacked in the culture war; A pastor's Web site is defaced during a verbal battle about gay sex-ed.
  by Shaidle, Kathy
• No quick fix; A plan to establish a safe-injection site bedevils Vancouver's new mayor.
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Letters to the Editor.
• The emissions-trading trap; New alliances form as everyone prepares to win or lose on Kyoto.(green house gas emissions control Canada)(Brief Article)
  by Byfield, Mike
• He knows Joe Average; Ralph Klein succeeds because he's so much like the people he leads.(King Ralph: The Political Life and Success of Ralph Klein)(Book Review)
  by Milke, Mark
• It's a wonderful movie; The Report's primer to the best and worst of Yuletide film.
  by Lott, Jeremy
• Gonthier vs the media; A speech delivered by a Supreme Court judge sparks freedom-of-press fears.
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Twenty-dollar bribes; An Indian reformer describes the high price of cheap corruption.
  by McLean, Candis
• Heritage Fund or slush fund?It's not raining, but Alberta politicians still want to spend the province's 'rainy day' fund.(Brief Article)
  by Ko, Marnie
• The Record.
• Analysis; Klein is right to seek U.S. help against Ottawa.(Ralph Klein economics)(Brief Article)
  by Byfield, Mike
• News flash: wolves fish; West Coast greens find another 'unique' animal to stop logging.(British Columbia)(Brief Article)
  by Ko, Marnie
• Now the right hates fat too; When the government pays the tab, your lifestyle is their business.(obesity and health care costs Canada)(Brief Article)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• Inside Straight; A tale of two Ozzies: from Nelson to Osbourne.(get married and start having kids)(Brief Article)(Column)
  by Bunner, Paul
• The Right Eye; Blessed are the ugly little bats, for they shall inherit the church.(Kyoto accord)
  by Hunter, Ian
• The right to be ignorant; Over half of Canadians cannot name one Charter right.
  by Byfield, Joanne
• Orthodoxy; How odd that nine out of ten Canadians believe in God, while 78% also believe in abortion.
• A mechanical Michelangelo; B.C. bicycle inventor Georgi Georgiev sets world records and helps the disabled.
  by Hiebert, Rick
• Kyoto's teeth; Alberta and B.C. prepare to protect their economies from federal climate controls.
  by Stock, Peter
• Letter from the Publisher; Our campaign succeeded, and we have launched the Citizens Centre for Freedom and Democracy.
  by Byfield, Link
• Up Front.
  by Cosh, Colby
• Bad news for pot smokers; Ounce for ounce, a British study says, marijuana does more damage than tobacco.
  by Byfield, Joanne
• Analysis; Why western farmers have not yet rebelled, despite their financial hardships.
  by Byfield, Mike
• Let's ice this trend; Hockey officials are trying to counteract a raft of lawsuits filed by vexatious parents.
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Opening Shots; Yesterday we worried about keeping 'Christ' in Christmas. Now Christmas itself is in peril.
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Westview; Turning heroes into victims was a tricky job, but on November 11 the CBC was equal to it.(coverage of Canadian soldiers who died under friendly fire)
  by Byfield, Ted
• Morality play; B.C. schools look to universal values in a bid to put ethics back in the classroom.(British Columbia)(workshops on ethical decision-making)
  by Hiebert, Rick
• Liberal Democracy.(O! Canada)(Illustration)
  by Stock, Peter
• Orthodoxy; As churches are bombed and children perish, our academics remain treasonously silent.
• Letter from the Publisher; Let's hope Cynthia Maughan beats the Christian-bashers at UBC.(University of British Columbia)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
  by Byfield, Link
• Letters to the Editor.
• Life in the Big House; Jailed Alberta farmers gain support across the country.(Canada)
  by McLean, Candis
• The Record.(death notices)
• Inside Straight; Somebody should pay for Miss World. But Christians?
  by Bunner, Paul
• Up Front.
  by Cosh, Colby
• The sellout of Canada; Mel Hurtig believes Canada will become Puerto Rico with snow.(The Vanishing Country: Is It Too Late to Save Canada?)(Book Review)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• Numbers.
• Farmers, hunters and target shooters beware; No one knows exactly how the federal government will enforce gun-registration laws.
  by Ko, Marnie
• Politically correct anger; Academic freedom is jolted by protests at Concordia and Harvard.(free speech)
  by Shaidle, Kathy
• The fight to save music; Calgary's symphony is broke, but some trends are encouraging.(Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Alberta)(Brief Article)
  by Byfield, Mike
• Too many black criminals; A Toronto newspaper misses the bigger story in an 'expose' of police racism.
  by Stock, Peter
• Prisoners have a right to defend themselves; An Alberta judge acquits an inmate who held off five attackers with a homemade knife.(Shane Arthur Wilson)(Brief Article)
  by Ko, Marnie
• Numbers.
• The loonie becomes an endangered species; Complacent Canadians may soon decide it's easier to switch to the U.S. greenback.(currency)(Brief Article)
  by Byfield, Mike
• Law and Disorder.
  by Cohen, Lynne
• Hope for a lost people; A historic speech touched the heart of a Mafia boss. Will it touch Canadians?(Pope John Paul II speaks on moral relativism, Italy)
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Drug peddlers, life-savers; A small-town pharmacy sells cheap medicine to desperate Americans via the Net.(RxNorth)
  by Stock, Peter
• Separatism surges in Alberta; A new poll shows soaring support for both independence and joining the U.S.
  by Stock, Peter
• Canada from A to Zed; A Vancouver native writes about his homeland and his fear of the U.S.(Souvenir of Canada)(Book Review)
  by Lott, Jeremy
• Time to bring back the chain gangs?Each crime now presents a one-in-50 chance of going to jail--pretty good odds.(criminal justice system Canada)
  by Ko, Marnie
• Poverty on paper; Claims of rising child destitution do not hold up to scrutiny.
  by Stock, Peter
• A hot time in Camrose this summer; Alarmed at the number of injuries, a medical dispatcher calls for more security at rock concerts.
  by McLean, Candis
• Law and Disorder.(various; litigation Canada)
  by Cohen, Lynne
• Twelve thousand new voters; By enfranchising convicts the Supreme Court tells Parliament who's really in charge.(Canada)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• Brave New World.
  by McGovern, Celeste
• The 'coyote getter' fires cyanide; Manitoba wants to reintroduce a deadly machine to control problem predators.
  by Hiebert, Rick
• Liberal Democracy.(lobbying)
  by Stock, Peter
• Hollywood fights to protect its filth; Dozens of U.S. companies have sprung up, offering families cleaner, more wholesome movies.(editing existing films)
  by Ko, Marnie
• Internet nightmare; A Manitoba woman is stalked for four years by a man she met on-line.
  by Ko, Marnie
• Car-insurance rates hit calamity heights; The courts, terrorists and other costs hammer insurers and insured alike.
  by Stock, Peter
• Cut it out, folks!An Alberta man is forced to sue for a kidney transplant, and the doctor of his choice.
  by Ko, Marnie
• Playing to the home crowd (cover story); Under the cover of anti-Bush rhetoric, Chretien is moving Canada closer to the U.S.(Cover Story)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• Opening Shots; Three cheers for suburban developers. They're giving the people what they want.(little boxes, Canada)(Brief Article)(Column)
  by O'Neill, Terry
• Eclectica.(criticism of newspaper columnists and their views)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• SaskPool death watch; This summer a drought has left the grain co-op looking like easy prey.(Saskatchewan Wheat Pool)(Brief Article)
  by Byfield, Mike
• Uncle Sam looks north; Canada howls as America introduces overdue measures to tighten border security.(after September 11th, 2001)(Illustration)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• Westview; Most Albertans are ready to consider leaving Canada over the Chretien memorial treaty.
  by Byfield, Ted
• Guest Column; Ebenezer Scrooge is alive and working for some secular bureaucracy in your neighbourhood.(Column)
  by Ulrich, Mariette
• Eclectica.(The Royal Tenenbaums)(Movie Review)
  by Grace, Kevin Michael
• The Right Eye; Far from revealing too much, Preston's book does not tell us nearly enough.(Think Big: My Adventures in Life and Politics)(Book Review)
  by Hunter, Ian
• The heart of healing; One of the most common sources of female depression has been a taboo subject.(Pat Archer)(Illustration)
  by O'Neill, Terry