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Is Calgary ready?

by Kevin Potvin

When economic oil runs out, Calgary will become as besieged by mass migrations and social problems as Vancouver was when the trees, fish and minerals ran out. Does Calgary know what is coming?

The picture of Calgary today couldn’t look more different from the picture of Vancouver today. But it sure resembles a picture of Vancouver from 30 years ago, when the good times also looked like they would never end.

So what was Najaf all about?

by William Kay

The American assualt on the important Shiite shrine lays the groundwork for provoking an October war with Iran—just in time to rally Americans around their president for the election.

War with Iran has a gambler’s chance of boosting the President’s popularity. Such a war would also smoke out the Kerryites who will predictably mumble convoluted approvals of the President to the dismay of the powerful US peace movement. War with Iran could “Naderize” Kerry.

Over a million barrels of oil a day lost to depletion

by The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre

The energy crunch is arriving now. Below are the facts that every political leader in the world, including in Canada, must acknowledge and address.

UK production from the North Sea, which peaked in 1999, posted the world's fourth largest decline in 2003 at nearly 9 percent. Indonesia, an OPEC member, has been in decline for 12 years, averaging 2.6 percent a year, but over the past few years this has accelerated to 8.5 percent last year.

Virtual reality gets real

by Chris LaVigne

The vacation in your mind is in its infancy now, but early successes from the video game industry indicate more interesting things to come soon

Capri is a unique game with its environments made up of photos of real places rather than polygon-rendered graphics. The Savareses captured virtually the entire public space of Capri on film in order to give gamers the full experience of being on the island.

Fundamentalist secularism

by Michael Nenonen

The fundamentalists and the secularists, the two ruling factions in the world today, have much more in common than either could possibly suppose. One no less than the other must make accomadations for each

It’s no coincidence that the European Enlightenment coincided with the bloody Witch Craze. As the old mythos was disrupted, the malignant psychological forces that it kept in check were catastrophically unleashed.

A coalition of willing girlie-men bring it on

by Jennifer Matsui

The coming November election offers Americans no choice at all between two chest-thumping war mongers.

Garbage in, garbage out

What do a folk singer and a potato farmer have in common? How about a dodgy investment scheme in power generation at Gold River that might actually see tons of Los Angelinos garbage pile up in Nootka Sound

Turner's Movies

reviewed by Scott Turner

Code 46 and Kill Bill

Books we're reading this month

reviewed by Chris LaVigne and Kevin Potvin

The Digital Sublime; Digital Play; Glory and Terror; Fear and Loathing in George W. Bush's Washington

Letters to the Republic

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