Tom Sandborn
Tom Sandborn lives in Vancouver, B.C.
Big Pharma: drugging involuntary psychiatric patients
Lawyer Jim Gottstein uncovers Big Pharma’s use of the drug Zyprexa on involuntary mental patients.
The Sense God Gave a Duck
Tom Sandborn reflects on the death of Molly Ivins.
Whose Side Are We On?
Tom Sandborn wants to know why Canada seemingly tried to prevent an Ethiopian scientist from attending a key meeting in Montreal to discuss the issues surrounding genetically modified organisms (GMOs). He also asks some hard questions about whether our government is on the side of the corporations, or with the farmers around the world that GMOs are impoverishing.
It Can’t Happen Here: Secret Police, No Evidence, No Fair Trial
Tom Sandborn looks at Canada’s "security detention" procedures, and wonders whatever happened to the rule of law.
Making Sweatshops
Tom Sandborn reviews a book on one of the uglier phenomena associated with globalization
Up Against War and Peaceniks
Tom Sandborn has a few bones to pick with Stan Persky’s December 19th piece.
Babel’s Exiles, Kosovo, Galacia and the confusion of Tongues
Dubya’s election makes Tom Sandborn remember a journey among Babel’s Exiles