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Current Issue •October 12 to October 25, 2006  •  No 149

Resistance

Highway One: To the barricades!

By Kevin Potvin

The battle to defeat the expansion of the highway is the key battle of our times, and victory there will launch a renewed progressive momentum




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Vancouver

City Notes: Vision Vancouver comes late to the housing game

By Reed Eurchuk

And the fledgling party gives opportunism a bad name 

Woodwards

Requiem for a Neighbourhood

By Tavis Dodds

Eulogy for Vancouver’s Woodwards building

Letter from America

The Bush within

By Phil Rockstroh

The hackneyed presidency is a symptom of the disease that afflicts all Americans

Geopolitics

Israel to become critical oil hub

By Dan Adleman

Wars and unrest throughout the Middle East set the stage for a realignment of oil producing and shipping routes

Mining

Canadian copper company Ascendant involved in abuses in Ecuador

By Cyril Mychalejko

Investors with a conscience should check to see if their funds are connected to Ascendant

Religion

Look who’s casting stones

By Michael Nenonen

Accusations of a predisposition to violence in Islam conveniently overlooks the history of violence in those casting the aspersions

 

They said What?

[The Democratic Party] is the party that is tolerant of, maybe more so than Republicans, that lifestyle.

Ron Gwaltney, Virginia citizen interviewed at a Christian rock concert speaking on Florida representative Mark Foley’s explicitly sexual emails to young male pages

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Letters

Turner's movies

Shortbus

The Science of Sleep

 

East Vancouver

Community democracy explodes in East Vancouver

By Kevin Potvin

Massive turn-out of voters return a complete progressive slate to the board of the storied Grandview-Woodlands Area Council

 

 

Books we're reading

God and Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money

From the front page of The Vancouver Province on this day, September 15, 2006

In the news

News briefs

By Kevin Potvin

International

The Bush administration in Washington reaped its biggest fruit yet of its reckless declaration of war on Iraq: Monday morning, 11:39 local time, North Korea successfully tested its first nuclear detonation.

 

 

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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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