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New papers eat 100 trees a week

by Kevin Potvin

All three companies launching free daily papers should be ashamed of themselves for not even operating like businesses

The Skytrain cars are ankle deep in the garbage. No wonder: the three papers together consume the equivalent of over 100 trees each week.

Killing Granville Street softly

by Reed Eurchuk

Granville Street is emblematic of how ecnomic forces blindly strangle the life such streets have historically created

The Blackstone is now a Howard Johnson’s hotel. The Nelson Place, which catered to a largely native clientele, is now a Comfort Inn. The Austin is now a Ramada Inn and has some cutesy bar on the street.

Ward Churchill’s roosting chickens

by Michael Nenonen

Ward Churchill’s call for destabilizing violent action in America is persausive, but may open the door to the same thing from other sides

The upheaval that Churchill recommends might succeed in destabilizing the state, but in the American milieu this destabilization would likely open the window of opportunity the extreme right's been waiting for.

UBC geneticist proves evolution

by Sean Wilkinson

A study of birds in Asia uncovers a bona fide example of evolution in species

Rubber is critical, and vulnerable

by Dan Crawford

Often overlooked, rubber could as easily bring the economy to a halt as oil could

Did someone say environment?

by Andrea Reimer

Liberals are looking over their shoulder, but it’s not the NDP’s breath they feel

Iraq War reaches critical phase

by Kevin Potvin

US deaths may be down and media coverage dropped, but this is when history is made, for better or worse

Woody Allen isn’t funny anymore

by Junius

Melinda and Melinda reviewed

The Republic works

by Kevin Potvin

Four years later, this newspaper is in the black. Er, we mean self-sustaining.

Turner's Movies

reviewed by Scott Turner

Saw and Bram Stoker's Dracula

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