Magazine

September/October 2006: Good to the Last Drop

Volume 40, Number 5

The second of a two-issue series on environment and climate change. In this issue, a special focus on Water — Who owns it? Who controls it? Who gets it? Articles include Tony Clarke on sending Canada’s water south; Paul Moist on the commercialization of water and the need for a national water policy; and articles by Judy da Silva and Ellen Lutz on water issues and Canadian First Nations and indigenous peoples worldwide. Also inside: Boycotting Israel; Canadian Football — a worker’s paradise; and Leonilda Zurita takes us inside the Bolivian resistance.

• Editorial: The International Community Must Act to Stop Israel

• Opening Arguments

• The Conservatives Dubious Democratic Agenda
  by Dennis Pilon
• Whats Behind Harper’s Anti-Aboriginal Agenda
  by R. Brian Howe
• In Defense of Divestment
  by Ed Janzen
• Leonilda Zurita
  by Benjamin Dangl
• Turning up the Heat on Isreal
  by Ed Janzen
• “Missile Defense” Alive and Well in Canada
  by Richard Sanders
• Tax Cut Mania in Nova Scotia
  by Brendan Haley
• Altantic Canada Fights Back
  by James J. Brittain and Jim Sacouman
• Can We Learn From American Activists?
  by Sam Gindin

• Feature: Good to the Last Drop

• Turning on Canada’s Tap
  by Tony Clarke
• Communities Not Corporations
  by Paul Moist
• Polluted Water Hits First Nations
  by Judy Da Silva
• The Right To Water
  by Ellen Lutz
• The Future of Agriculture: Has Cuba Shown the Way?
  by Paul Phillips
• The Highway to Oil’s End
  by Andrew E. Jackson

• Regulars

• The Horowitz Paragraph
  by Gad Horowitz
• Indian Country
  by Kahentinetha Horn
• Labour Report
  by Geoff Bickerton
• Québec Communiqué
  by Pierre Dostie
• Left Film Guide
  by Rick slye
• On the Edge
  by Lesley Hughes

• All That’s Left

• Abodes of the Apocalypse
  by Bryan D. Palmer
• Motherhood Organizing
  by Melanie Panitch
• Rockers in a Straight Mans World
  by Erin Millar
• Revisiting a Forgotten High-seas Struggle
  by Dennis Pilon
• Why the CFL Is the Sweden of the Sports World
  by Simon Black