Articles from Canada and the World Backgrounder (May 1, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Against injustice.			575
Aiming higher: across Canada, about 1.1 million full-time students were enrolled in post-secondary institutions in 2001, but thousands have been turned away because of lack of space or they have not applied for admission because the cost of tuition is too high for them.			1919
Bread and circuses? Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman poet Juvenal coined the phrase in our headline to describe leaders who organized entertainments for unhappy citizens to take their minds off the fact that all they had to eat was bread.			1442
Defending the defenceless.			2428
Detached, disinterested, and disengaged.			1924
Minding our future: Canada's largely informal child-care system falls far behind what is offered in several European countries.			2346
Nature's friends.			2518
Quote ... unquote.			307
Taking back democracy.			2385
The debate continues: in most countries, utilities such as electricity and water supplies are considered essential services that are to be provided by government and funded by user fees.			2086
The greater good.			1924
The pendulum swings: in Canada, the popularity of government-funded social programs rises and falls in a cycle.			2137
Under the weather: politicians say they are fixing our ailing health-care system and, in September 2004, the provinces signed a new funding deal, with Ottawa which may or may not make a difference.			3299