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This issues marks the reintroduction of the reading section, and the first ever localized version of the Dominion. The Ottawa edition will be printed and distributed in Ottawa by the Ottawa Panhandlers' Union, a bargaining unit of the Ottawa local of the Industrial Workers of the World, affectionately known as the Wobblies. The local edition will feature coverage of issues marginalized or otherwise inadequately addressed by the local media. In other exciting news, Dominion contributor Anthony Fenton has returned from Haiti. Watch the Dominion Weblog for additional coverage of the situation there.

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http://dominionpaper.ca/pdf/dominion-issue17-ottawa.pdf

International News

US Accused of Interfering in El Salvadoran Elections

Mercenaries Make Up Third Largest Military Force in Iraq

US Role in 1964 Brazilian Military Coup Revealed: National Security Archive

Also: 40 Million Indians on Strike; Nine Days After 9-11; Russia Limits Right to Protest.

Canadian News
Poll Reveals Canada Prefers Independence from US

Vancouver Bus Rider Union Brings Back Night Bus Service

Disappointment and Outrage Over Federal Budget

PEI Carpenters Form Cooperative

Feature

Divide and Conquer: Bilateral Trade Agreements, by Yuill Herbert

Accounts

Impressions from Haiti, by Anthony Fenton

Comics

"Clerk Fatigue," by Heather Meek

Arts

The Art of Second Language Conversation, by Linda Besner

Environment

Direct Action: Tre Arrow Arrested, by Dru Oja Jay

Ottawa

Ottawa's Homeless Fight Back, by John Dunn

On the Need for a Street Newspaper in Ottawa, by Jane Scharf

Reading

Worth reading, elswhere: John Pilger on East Timor, Naomi Klein in Iraq, Dahr Jamail on journalism in Iraq, sour gas in BC, Hawai'ian sovereignty, Cuba's humanitarian intervention, the urban population boom, the threat of e-voting, and more in reading.

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