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Vast extension of human rights urged
OTTAWA - Federal law should be expanded to ban discrimination against the poor, concludes a report that heralds "a new era" in human rights protection in Canada. Under the sweeping changes recommended by a government-appointed panel, human rights abuses would be redefined to include business practices that limit access to loans, mortgages, bank accounts, telephone services and other services for people who are on welfare or are unemployed.

As good as golf gets
KELOWNA - There were lovely 22-year-old blondes and awestruck septuagenarians, standing side by side, craning for a look, all speaking one language. Worship. The older ones have known Jack Nicklaus most of their adult lives, the teenagers maybe just since Friday, when he said his tear-stained goodbye at Pebble Beach, one of those hallmark moments of a sporting life. One way or another, Nicklaus had touched them all.

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Tiger versus Bear

Trading probe deepens
Some of the country's largest brokerage firms -- most owned by the big banks -- are bracing for what could be an onslaught of disciplinary action from two of Canada's most powerful securities regulators as a result of a sweeping probe into alleged stock manipulation. Three of the major banks -- Royal Bank of Canada, Canadian Imperial Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal -- yesterday confirmed their involvement in an extensive six-month investigation by the Ontario Securities Commission and the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Long says sorry to Alliance
TORONTO and OTTAWA - Tom Long unconditionally apologized to the Canadian Alliance yesterday after admitting that Quebec campaign workers had manipulated membership tallies by signing up people without their knowledge or consent. "Let me say that I am embarrassed and angry with the recruitment tactics used by my team in Gaspe. This is my campaign and these things were done on my behalf so I accept full responsibility.

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Alliance rejects calls to delay vote

Grassroots stain over bogus members will linger

Who's voting for whom

Manning looks like a leader

Furor over immigration officials' trophy shirts
VANCOUVER - Federal immigration officials have presented their staff with golf shirts celebrating last month's deportation of 90 Chinese migrants. Beneath the official enforcement office crest on the shirt is a red embroidered inscription which reads: "Class of 90."