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Current Issue •October 26 to November 9, 2006  •  No 150

You decide how much it's worth to you:

Resistance

Groping in the dark

By Kevin Potvin

The enormity of the project before humanity today is almost beyond imagination. But not quite

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New Music

Bert Jansch —Black Swan (Drag City)

By Matt Goody

As one of the seminal independent record labels, Drag City has been home to such major indie rock acts as Pavement, Will Oldham....

Homelessness

Don’t choose to be too poor

By Tavis Dodds

My week in a Vancouver homeless shelter

Letter from America

A tacit approval of torture

By Phil Rockstroh

How did America come to accept this horrible new norm?

Geopolitics

America playing for the draw

By Dan Adleman

America has been taken to untenable positions in the Middle East

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Religion

Body Worlds 3 exhibits the hubris of science

By Michael Nenonen

The pursuit of scientific knowledge can never be ethically neutral. It’s alienating by definition

 

They said What?

These reeky tardy-gaited hugger-muggers on the Liberal bench, along with their odiferous unchin-snouted fustilarian colleagues could serve Canada better by focusing on what actually matters.

David Asper, idiot son of the late Izzy Asper, and Chairman of The National Post, in a column he made The National Post actually run

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Letters

Turner's movies

Short Nelson

Viridiana

 

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

 

 

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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

Top American in Iraq goes Bathhist

Gambling expansion fulfils prophecy

Peter MacKay

Corporate Canada loses its way

Never appease aggressors

 

 

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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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