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September 1 to 14 , 2005 •  No 121

Those routine bizarre coincidences

by Kevin Potvin

The London tube bombings interrupted a drill testing responses to the very same kind of event, just like 9-11

The fictional scenario explored in the film involved three bombs planted on London tube trains and a fourth on a truck.

Running on fumes

by Phil Rockstroh

A trip on an interstate freeway becomes a journey to the end of empire

In such actions, we can see where our cultural priorities lie and to where those priorities have led us: to the creation of an ugly, vicious empire where our essential human aspirations have been usurped by the dreams of machines, and as a consequence, our nation is dying from that machine’s unquenchable thirst for oil.

 

Dan's Homebrewing Supplies

 

uprising breads bakery

One small victory for a park . . .

by Kevin Potvin

. . . and one giant leap for democracy, activism, and organization

 

The final and critical vote by the chair of the board was delivered a full three seconds before the main protagonists in this story realized they had won a case no one had given them the slightest chance to win going in.

The First Disruption

by Dan Crawford

Rising oil prices are a warning we would do well to heed while we have the time

 

For an oil disruption, the main requirement is to remain mobile. This can be done by having a working bicycle with spare parts, hand tools and, the most important of all, racks, panniers or a trailer.

Dick Cheney, Alberta-bound

by Derrick O'Keefe

The creepy veep comes at the invitation of Michael Walker and the Fraser Institute.

 

'He is coming up for a private visit with myself and another friend of his up in Alberta, where we’ll go off up in a lodge for a variety of purposes.'

Bar the gates, we're surrounded

by Kevin Potvin

We are wasting our breath enlisting the suburbs to save our neighbourhoods

 

Vancouverites typically think that residents of Coquitlam, Langley, and Surrey, because they live in relatively high-density situations, work in the manufacturing or service sectors, and don’t wear straw hats, are therefore just as urban as Vancouverites are. But that might be a big mistake.

 

 

 

The Fair Trade Chocolate Company

First ElderCorps mission a success!

by Guy Hawkins

Elder reports from remote northern India, where the Declaration is put into action

Letters to the Republic

Books we're reading this month

reviewed by Kevin Potvin

Hitler's Scientists

Turner's Movies

reviewed by Scott Turner

Proteus and Asphalt

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