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New media underpins
dumb-ocracy

by Kevin Potvin

Three new newspapers are launching into the Vancouver market this month, all chasing the readers the big dailies and community weeklies have lost. The men behind them would be better off getting themselves vintage 65 Mustangs if chasing lost youth is what they're trying to do

If you know what “the dose” usually means, you are intentionally excluded from the reading market the paper is aiming to target.

Be careful with Lebanon

by Kevin Potvin

It was only one generation ago when large groups in Lebanon conducted a civil war big and dangerous enough to threaten the world. Let's not get carried away with these latest huge protest marches

It was therefore especially tragic and particularly confusing to see Beirut, formerly known as the Jewel of the Mediterranean, become the poster-city for out-and-out total devastation from within no less than from without

Liberals jump ship

by Andrea Reimer

20 missing Liberal MLAs for May's election is not, it turns out, such a big number considering how many they elected. What is missing is a budget, as well as any NDP complaints about that

Elections are about two things: vision and competence. On the first front, the BC Liberal team has a head start that's growing every day. It's not a vision I personally agree with, but like the vision that led to George Bush's election down south, it's simple and relatively well communicated.

Shame on who?

Elites in society, like guards in a prison, encourage the middle classes to shame the lower classes and thereby exert dominant control over all. First we must relieve the shame to redress the injustice of poor-bashing

by Michael Nenonen

It's back to the farm

by Dan Crawford

When demand for energy exceeds what the world can supply, everything will begin unwinding, sending us back to local communities - or perpetual war

Capitalists better smarten up

by Kevin Potvin

The people of Canada who own the resources have allowed investors to help themselves to some of it in order to make them do what they do so well. But they've been stealing too much and the people have the power to put an end to it if and when they choose, as they've shown in history

Turner's Movies

reviewed by Scott Turner

The Aviator and Place Without Limits

Books We're Reading This Month

reviewed by Kevin Potvin

The Devil and the disappearing sea; America Alone; Washington Gone Crazy

Letters to the Republic

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