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Current Issue • February 1 to February 14, 2007  •  No 156

Energy

Uranium’s magic bullet is a dud

By Kevin Potvin

There is nothing clean, safe or secure about nuclear power, once you get outside the power plant

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Homelessness

Celebrating 104 years at Main and Hastings

By Tavis Dodds

At the centre of Vancouver’s storied downtown eastside is the venerable Carnegie Centre

Vancouver

The NPA, a party divided

By Reed Eurchuk

The vote-splitting is just as likely on the right as on the left, especially if Sullivan battles for the nomination

War

Is he going after Iran?

By Dan Adleman

US military moves in the deserts and oceans surrounding Iran suggest the US neo-cons are planning to make their Iraqi debacle a footnote in a much larger conflict

Highway One

Kevin Falcon has nothing to say

By Kevin Potvin

In a luncheon talk to the Council of Tourism Associations of BC, the minister of transport avoids all the current issues to do with transport

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Universe

Government’s privatization plans for BC Hydro threaten to lock in low social funding levels

By Michael Nenonen

Dire situations for the most impoverished will become far worse as a result of government selling off revenue streams

 

They said What?

The worst place to stand as a press secretary is where the ground is shifting.

Ari Fleischer, former Bush White House press secretary, reflecting on the hazards of the job while testifying in the perjury case against I Lewis Libby Jr.

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Letters

Turner's movies

Pan’s Labryinth

Casino Royale

 

Fiction

The Deadline

By Mats Vizarof

The second installment of our serialized novel, to appear every issue on the back page of The Republic, just like newspapers used to do!

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In the news

News briefs

By Kevin Potvin

Use product labeling to indicate GHG impact of consumer choices

IOC beats up local citizens at Vancouver Parks Board without even showing up

How long will slow-witted climate change deniers block the road?

Will Bush bolt for Paraguay?

 

 

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