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Republic

Current Issue • June 8 to June 21, 2006  •  No 140

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Ethics

A bra made of seal eyelids?

By Michael Nenonen

A joke at the Juno awards reveals the shallowness of celebrity ethics when it comes to man’s treatment of animals

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Privatization

BC Gas may go to shadowy Carlyle Group

By Kevin Potvin

The world’s biggest and most secretive private investment firm, staffed with ex-spooks, presidents, prime ministers, and a few of our own ex-premiers, looks to add our gas resources to its handsome portfolio of war-profiteering companies

This City

Park Board gives up more public space to private interests

By Isabel Minty

And more private encroachment on public lands is in the works

Activism

Mouse that roared faces the boot of City bureaucracy

By Kevin Potvin

Technocrats at the City Planning Department go to Supreme Court to challenge the citizens’ Board of Variance after it reversed a Planning decision

Music

Amanda Church on the record

By Matt Goody

Nelson, BC tile painting artist featured on indy sensation Mogwai's album cover  

Media

Monitoring power with Robert Fisk

By Reed Eurchuck

An engrossing talk by the famed journalist in Vancouver’s east side lays a righteous beating on Western journalism

Vancouver

Wire: Pink Flag (Pink Flag 11/ Revolver); Chairs Missing (Pink Flag 12/Revolver); 154 (Pink Flag 13/Revolver)

By Matt Goody

 

The Free Press

They said What?

50 Years ago today in The Vancouver Heald

Books we're reading

The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East, by Robert Fisk (Fourth Estate, 2006)

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Letters

 

In which there is no Province-Whitecaps conspiracy, there is nothing wrong with faith-based public policy, and security cameras really are scary, in England

Turner's movies

Junius

Souvenir of Canada

 
 

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Kevin Potvin

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Contributors in this and recent issues

Bruce Alexander, Dan Adleman, Toby Alford, Kevin Annett, Santo Barbieri, Bob Broughton, Mike Bryan, Stephen Buckley, Matthew Burrows, Maria Calleja, Ron Carton, Chad Christie, Joshua Corber, Dan Crawford, Gail Davidson, Eric Doherty, Joe Donaldson, Lorena Jara Patty Ducharme, Shadia Drury, Taivo Evard, Reed Eurchuk, Farnaz Fassihi, Thomas Feakins, Anthony Fenton, Reza Fiyouyzat, Andrew Gordon Fleming, Ryan Fugger, Sasha Gagic, Matt Goody, Guy Hawkins, Spencer Herbert, John Irwin, Nick Istvaniffy, Junius, William Kay, Mike Keep, Kate Kennedy, Donald Kropp, Chris LaVigne, James Lindfield, Brian Lindgreen, Karen Litzke, Keith MacKenzie, Michael McLaughlin, Sonya McRae, Rafe Mair, Sonia Marino, Jennifer Matsui, Michael Millard, Isaebel Minty, Michael Nenonen, Wendy Nylund, Derrick O’Keefe, Stephen Osborne, Sean Orr, Evan Augustine Pederson III, Stephen Peplow, Kim Peterson, Kevin Potvin, Mary Rawson, Andrea Reimer, Erin Riley, Phil Rockstroh, Becky Scott, Jason Scott, Chris Shaw, Jeff Steudel, Alex Tegart, Scott Turner, Elbio Grosso Trentini, Patrick Vert, Chris Walker, Sean Wilkinson, Brad Zembic

 

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