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Current Issue •January 4 to January 18, 2007  •  No 154

Oil

What future for BC’s offshore oil and gas?

By Kevin Potvin

Provincial and national policy should acknowledge and prepare for the growing risks of US take-over

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Olympics 2010

Five Ring Circus a highly revealing film

By Dan Adleman

Conrad Schmidt’s work in progress exposes the myth of the Green Games and looks at the real price of the Olympics

Religion

Slice of life in Ukraine

By Jon Anderson

The Orange Revolution is a distant memory, now it’s all buckets of chicken heads

Environment

Changing minds on climate change

By Kevin Potvin

Arguing on the air about Highway One expansion can be a frustrating experience

Vancouver

Hide our shame for 2010

By Kevin Potvin

Sullivan and the NPA-majority council love Civil Cities, even though it is completely unrelated to any concerns Vancouverites actually have

9-11

Building number 7 is the key

By Kevin Potvin

Those who poo-poo alternative theories about 9-11 should adopt the methods of science and try to explain what happened to the building that was not hit by a plane

War

Canada stuck in Afghanistan

By Michael Nenonen

We’re either guilty of abandonment or of war crimes, and still no better future for the war-torn nation

 

They said What?

It’s not completely a joke to say Fort McMurray is the second-largest city in Newfoundland.

Philip Cross, Statistics Canada, on the phenomenon of so many Newfoundlanders working in the oil sands of Northern Alberta

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Letters

Turner's movies

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne

Trailers for "The Good German" & "The Good Shepherd"

 

Iran

Get on the editorial board and fight Highway One!

By Kevin Potvin

A Britannia workshop to produce a real living newspaper supplement gets under way next week!

Film

Bobby

By Junius

We hardly knew ya

 

 

In the news

News briefs

By Kevin Potvin

A special arrangement

Blame Gerald Ford for Iraq

Here come the Chinese cars

 

 

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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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