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March 2 to March 15, 2006  •  No 133

Environment

Uranium exploration in BC set to take off

by Dan Crawford

With many new nuclear power plants, the price of uranium has skyrocketed, prompting massive and destructive exploration throughout BC

 

This city

Touring the  Cool House

by Matt Goody

Seattle’s central library is a sign of where Vancouver should be going

 

The budget

Baby Boomers wreck everything

by Kevin Potvin

Conservative Baby Boomers are self-indulgent, unaware, anti-social and ugly: Baby Boomers in the highest political and business offices are wrecking everything

         
 

FEATURES

They said WHAT?

Books we're reading

What's new at the bookstores

The free press

New stores

'Scapes

Turner's Movies

100 years ago in The Vancouver World

Yellow journalism

 

Commercial Drive

The cafés of the Drive

An expert from Italy assesses the famous cafés of Commercial Drive and makes his choices

       

Film

Why we fight

by Junius

We all know the warning Eisenhower gave about the “military industrial complex.” With the film Why We Fight, we get the chance to see him saying it in the original TV broadcast.

 

 

Environment

Careening down our Lost Highway

By Michael Nenonen

An accumulation of crimes against tribal peoples is catching up to us ecologically, and they can’t be outrun

 

War

Why are we in Afghanistan?

By Kevin Potvin

The defence minister, the commander of forces, and the press would all like Canadians to learn more about why we are fighting and killing in Afghanistan. So let’s learn more

 

         

The USA

It’s all going according to plan

by Kevin Potvin

Despite terrible news for American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, it isn’t certain that present conditions were both unforeseen or unplanned

 

 

Media

Give it up, National Post

by Kevin Potvin

The second national daily in Canada is always reaching new lows and is an affront to journalism itself

 

 

Best-sellers

Check no.9 on the top-ten list

by Kevin Potvin

Control over the bestsellers list gives one the power of the self-fulfilling prophecy

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