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Look who's coming to dinner!

by Kevin Potvin

Results of a survey of BC federal candidates finds a wide-ranging choice for dinner partner and topic of conversation

This table is going to need a lot of attention to get that kind of ice broken! Which one of you hasn't met Osama yet?

Results to The Republic election survey

The following are results of a survey of all British Columbia main party candidates for federal election June 28, exlusive to The Republic. Candidates' answers to the questions, available via the links to the right, are organized by party affiliation. Not all candidates answered the survey.

What the BC Greens said

What the BC NDP said

What the BC Liberals said

What the BC Conservatives said

New look Canadians ready to surprise FIFA

by Sasha Gajic

Finally, after many years of non-returning players and low funding, the Canadian men's soccer team is fielding a solid squad that is ready to surprise many in World Cup qualifying

The American nemesis: Iraqi mortar squads

by William Kay

The mortar, war's most deadliest weapon, has only now made its presence known in the Iraqi war. Iraq manufactured a lot of them, and the US has no effective defence agaisnt them

Letting their conscience be their guide

by Chris LaVigne

Israeli refusniks are not pacifists. They just maintain a consciousness about the fact of a border.

Military sources have said that the refusenik movement was one factor that ended the Lebanon War and Kidron hopes that it plays a role in ending the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as well.

Why vote? Because of dispair, not in spite of it

by Michael Nenonen

Albert Camus, who had more reason to be apathetic than most today, took great strength from widespread hopelessness

Is it surprising that, faced with the sheer magnitude of these horrors, there are people who've given up, people who won't vote or participate in any other kind of political activity?

Who is Canada's Head-of-State?

by Kim Petersen

What is Canada doing still swearing allegiance to a non-Canadian head-of-state who doesn't even live here?

What are they going to think of us?

The June 28 election will also be watched around the world. Which way it goes will determine what Canada means to other people in other places, for a long time

A gaffe by a minister calling the US president a moron raised eyebrows. The previous prime minister's circumvention of US pressures to join the Coalition Authority launching an attack on Iraq left a deeper impression.

Turner's Movies

reviewed by Scott Turner

The Day After Tomorrow and Carandiru

Books we're reading this month

reviewed by Chris LaVigne and Kevin Potvin

From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog; Support Any Friend; and The Iraq War

Letters to the Republic

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