September 29 to October 12, 2005  •  No 123

• Spectacular by nature by Reed Eurchuk Inside Vancouver’s tourism-industrial complex Electoral reform must include financial reporting reform by Dan Crawford A hard look at the financial disclosures from the recent BC election reveals notable trends and influences   Both trade unions and corporations do not have the right to vote. Yet, these entities are allowed to influence the vote, in effect influencing democracy, through the financing of a particular political party.
  	Increase gas pump taxes now by Kevin Potvin Gas will be way more expensive soon enough anyway. Let’s grab the excess oil company profit now, while we can, and create new technology   Oil companies will be bled dry by shareholders not interested in leaving profits in the companies to be reinvested in future technology and alternative energy
  Use the hammer on Great Canadian Casinos by Kevin Potvin City Council has allowed the company to ride rough over citizens; it could instead show the company the door   If we accept that a glorious park is going to be turned over to a private company for the purpose of generating private then surely there are other business ideas to consider.	A different Tibetan Buddhism by Michael Nenonen A closer look into the history and traditions surrounding the Dalai Lama reveals a cautionary tale   Osel Tendzin was even less savoury. Before he died in 1990, this saint admitted to having sex with over a hundred men and women even though he knew that he had AIDs
  The United States of Dixieland by Phil Rockstroh Modern corporatism, Jesus, and the Death Genes have the country in a bony death grip	The Constant Gardener by Junius Courageous film exposes pharmaceuticals
  Letters to the Republic	Turner's Movies reviewed by Scott Turner The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Cronos
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