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Activism
By Kevin Potvin
A dramatically re-interpreted Board of Variance could re-ignite positive neighbourhood activism, and deliver the kind of democracy we should have had with a ward system |
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War
By Michael Nenonen
Watergate witness John Dean’s examination of modern conservatism opens up a new take on the direction of America |
Middle East
By Dan Adleman
Because of delusions and fantasies, Israel and the US both miss the real solutions to their existing problems
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International Relations
By Kevin Potvin While Canadians realize our officials can’t say it out loud, nothing is stopping our diplomats from quietly conveying support to Russia and China as they resist US pressure to force Iran to stop nuclear developments |
New Music
By Matt Goody
Bob Dylan—Theme Time Radio Hour on XM Satellite Radio
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Conservatism
By Jennifer MatsuiProgrammed to repeat the phrases and forget the meanings, American media create their own lexicon |
Wal-Mart
By Kevin Potvin
Wal Mart’s Vancouver gambit is the company’s model for the future, and that model includes spineless city councilors, which they now have in place
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They said What?
If we backed down on the nuclear issue, the US would have found fault with our medical doctors researching stem cells.
Ali Muhammad Besherati, former deputy interior and foreign minister in Iran
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Letters
Turner's movies
Picnic at Hanging Rock
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Centímetros
Junius at the picture show
Bon Cop, Bad Cop
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Media
By Kevin Potvin
Major eruptions in the global media industry are caused by the same changing dynamics of readership and Internet fragmentation that challenge small publications like this newspaper too |
100 years ago today
From the front page of The Vancouver World
on this day, August 31, 2006
J J Kelso, superintendent of the department of neglected children, has received notice from several municipal institutions through-out the province that they have infants to spare, and as a con-sequence, twenty babies of both sexes have been brought to the city. | Tourism
By Kevin Potvin
Tourism Vancouver cringes but anti-Bush regime letters show what kind of city this really is, and will likely bring more visitors, not less
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