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Backlash arises over labour's push to right

By Tom Sandborn
There's a new family fight within Vancouver's house of labour. Last May, the Vancouver and District Labour Council voted to endorse a controversially moderate "group of seven" slate of candidates for the board executive of the Committee of Progressive Electors (COPE).
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A methane battle is brewing

By Andrew Findlay
Back in 1978, a young Wade Davis scored the job of his dreams. Hired as a park ranger to explore and map B.C.'s newly established Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Park, he had a wonderfully vague job description: wilderness assessment and public relations. In two seasons he "related" to fewer than a dozen visitors.
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Developers are the Games’ real winners

By Donald Gutstein
A former developer himself, Premier Gordon Campbell holds the purse strings to an Olympic-size sweepstakes payout. The 2010 Olympics were still a gleam in Jack Poole's eye when he addressed a roomful of real-estate developers in the spring of 2002. Vancouver had been shortlisted for the Games, but it would be more than a year until the winning city was chosen.
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Ghanaians decry female genital cutting

By Sam Mednick
Clement Apaak was 11 when he watched his female cousins tied down and cut, one by one. Apaak remembers them screaming.
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Woodlands justice on hold

By Roxanne Gregory
Wally Oppal says there was no widespread abuse, despite historical evidence.
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Asian-history anniversaries begin to coalesce

By Charlie Cho
History is never neutral. Framing is everything. Take Vancouver's anti-Asian riots of 1907.
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Local long-term study leads HIV/AIDS fight

More than any of its predecessors, the 16th International AIDS Conference was dominated by two pleas: one for more resources devoted to preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS, and the other for expanded antiretroviral treatment across the world.
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U.S. posturing threatens chain reaction in Iran

By Brian Lynch
Like many in Vancouver's Iranian community, Davood Ghavami has looked on with growing worry at the standoff between the United Nations Security Council and Iran over the country's uranium-enrichment program.
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B.C. farmland under attack

By Charles Campbell
When news broke this month that former B.C. Finance Ministry senior aide Dave Basi is alleged to have taken $50,000 from two Vancouver Island developers to help them remove property from the Agricultural Land Reserve, many wondered if the integrity of the reserve had been compromised.
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Partnerships BC: more is less

By Murray Dobbin
You've heard it a thousand times: government should be run like a business. The problem is, those who make this judgment never say which businesses government should emulate. Should the B.C. government be run like Enron or WorldCom? Maybe not. We can hope, of course, that the promoters of this simplistic idea actually mean that government should be effective and responsible, with maximum accountability for the taxes that citizens pay.
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M.A.N.D.Y./ Dominik Eulberg

By Martin Turenne
M.A.N.D.Y. Body Language (Get Physical)
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It's no longer business as usual for premier

By Charlie Smith
Some veteran political commentators, including David Mitchell and Will McMartin, criticized Premier Gordon Campbell for not showing enough humility on election night. In his victory speech, Campbell left an impression that he doesn't plan any changes after the B.C. Liberals captured a 13-seat majority.
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Right-Wing Merger Threatens Liberals

By Charlie Smith
For several years, Chris Delaney has been the odd man out in B.C. politics. Even though he is articulate, gregarious, and very successful in business, Delaney has never attracted a large following for his right-wing Unity Party of British Columbia.
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Unions Take Aim at Wal-Mart

By Sarah Cox
Canada On The Frontlines Of A Mission To Organize The Retail Giant
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Iraqi Revisits Troubled Home

By Marcus Youssef
You might think Iraqi-Canadian Riadh Muslih should be a poster boy for the American occupation of Iraq. The founder and, until recently, editor-publisher of Lower Mainland Arabic community newspaper Al Shorouq, Muslih left his native country in 1965 to study in the U.S. Three years later, his father, a former minister in the government overthrown in a Baathist coup brokered by Saddam Hussein, was arrested and charged with spying for Israel and the CIA.
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Courts Unseal Other Warrants

By Charlie Smith
For the second time in less than five years, B.C. Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm is at the centre of a political controversy involving the RCMP, sealed search warrants, and allegations of organized crime.
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