"A Revolting Confession"  The original article (Nov. 28th 2002)

Nasty wabbits!

And here comes the National Post’s Lorne Gunter grunting down the boards skating on his ankles!

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Buffoons in the “professional” media make Keystone Cops look effective

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To be brutally honest

By Kevin Potvin

Author of "A revolting confession" responds to widespread media criticisms

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Previously the worry of obscure engineers in technical reports, now the prospect of declining global production of oil is front and centre on the desks of all policy makers

Media

What GAO Peak Oil report?

By Dan Crawford

An important piece of internationally significant news drops down through the cracks of Canada's media

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A poor grasp of what works in politics is leaving the Liberals out of the picture, and a firm grasp is taking the Conservatives into Bush Republican territory

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That is the real choice we have before us when it comes to the kind of world we inherited and will leave behind for our grandchildren in turn

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?His sacrifice to the vicious god of money is only a step or two ahead of the rest of us

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Super-natural British Columbia blasted out of the way

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Introduction to scholarly anthropology work about Whistler resort brings deeper issues to mind on the eve of its Olympian exposure

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John becomes depressed ahead of the rest of us

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The biggest story of the war became a non-event when the truth of the matter was that it was simply too bloody an event to report.

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Collateral damage of Olympic madness, dead by inaction

Environment

Americana in Montreal

By Dan Crawford

Environment draws the Prime Minister, but no real ideas for fundamental change

Federal Election

Campaign 2007 Journal

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Remember that secret private rush in that moment when your stubby pencil first glided over your ballot and were all alone in that voting booth free to do anything?

Conspiracies

The rise, fall, and rise again of Satan

By Michael Nenonen

Reports of ritual abuse wash through the public consciousness, and the media, with predictable frequency

Greenhouse gases

Shattering the myth of the anti-green highway

By Jeff Morrison, Executive Director, The Road and Infrastructure Program of Canada (TRIP Canada)

A highway building lobbyist argues that removing all roads will encourage huge car use, while paving every square inch of the city will reduce it

Transportation

An inconvenient transit

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Neither buses nor Skytrain metro provide the answer to affordable public transit, but light rail rings the bell all over the world

Environment

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The rule of law, and respect for contract law in particular, is what defines our civilization.

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Nature is confused. We used to have four seasons. Now we have two.

Debbie Fagan, resident of Summerhaven, Arizona, scene of devastating forest fires the last ten years

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The Deadline:
Chapter 6

By Mats Vizarof

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

Previous Issue • March 15 to March 28, 2007  •  No 159

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Vote Green in Vancouver-Kingsway!

By Kevin Potvin

Publisher of The Republic throws hat in the ring and takes to the hustings to go on the stump and test the winds

Civil rights

On the caging of old women

By Tavis W Dodds

The author reports from inside a Supreme Court holding cell on the sentencing of eco-granny Betty Krawczyk, an event that caused the entire Supreme Court to be shut down

Trade deals

NAFTA: The Next Generation

By Devon Batesk

BC and Alberta’s TILMA agreement threatens to debase municipal powers

Massacres

Class war in the school and office

By Michael Nenonen

The rise of workplace and school massacres might have much in common with slave revolts of a century-and-a-half ago

Vancouver

One big anti-NPA Party was already tried, and it failed

By Anne Roberts

A coalition is fine, but it needs to be built around more than merely opposition

Climate change

The Rise of climate science denialism

By Hugh Brisse

The author attends a roundtable at UBC where leading lights of the denial community clash with truth seekers

Quotes of the week

It’s just mother nature wreaking havoc. Hopefully it’s not going to be too much of an inconvenience.

Sandy Webster, spokesperson for Canada Line construction project, after a section of Cambie Street caved-in following heavy rains, closing the main thoroughfare in both directions

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