Articles from Canada and the World Backgrounder (October 1, 1996)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"I've seen the enemy, and it's us." (mutual funds and pensions account for a significant percentage of shareholder investment in Canadian companies)			324
"Scalpel please." (while Canada's major health care spending cuts have saved money, critics claim quality is diminishing, threatening patients' lives)			1394
"Spare some change?" (profile of two Toronto, Ontario panhandlers)			180
Catch-22.			152
Contrarians.			309
Debt driven.			1158
Downsizing or dumbsizing?			86
Eyebrows up.			169
Good money after bad.			419
Ideological battleground.			1308
Kid alert.			923
Losing balance.			704
Mustard Versus Spencer.			403
Rocking the cradle.			76
Shareholders vs. job holders.			1003
Shifting costs.			242
Short-term gain for long-term pain?			128
Stopping the tiers.			513
Taking care of granny and gramps.			591
Talking things over.			186
The discipline of the marketplace.			277
The jobless recovery.			944
The poor get poorer.			1540
The second safety net.			854
They said it wouldn't work.			69
Two routes.			172
Up, up, and away.			75
Workfare costs a bundle.			81
Working for whose welfare?			1192