| An anti-poverty group in Vancouver issued a challenge for an MLA in the province to live on the equivalent of welfare for a month. Jagrup Brar of the NDP accepted the challenge.

| Last week, more than half of the province's 70 courtrooms had no duty counsel, the lawyers who usually represent people for first-time appearances.

| Business elites are attacking the last remaining stronghold of unionism -- public sector workers. Michael Hurley says unions need creative new strategies in response.

| The United States recently brought out a new guide for its citizens called the Food Plate. Bill Jeffery says it's more intuitive and healthier than what we have in Canada.

| Human survival has always depended on our ability to find or grow food for ourselves or exchange something to acquire it. That simple equation is now severely out of whack.

| Canada will spend $22 billion on its military forces in the current fiscal year. That represents a very rapid growth in expenditures over the past 20 years.

| Colleen Fuller is a long-time public health advocate and health care analyst based in Vancouver. She was on a nationwide tour talking about CETA.

| Paul Moist is national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Canada's largest union. He was on a nationwide tour to build awareness about CETA.

| The current city council in Abbotsford is asking residents to agree to a public-private partnership with a foreign consortium to make much-needed improvements to the water system.

| When a grassroots health group asked people in their community what issues concerned them, the lack of good dental care was a major issue.