The Campaign for Democratic Media wants federal politicians to recognize that open access to the Internet is essential in a democratic society.

Liberal candidate Michelle Hassen, NDP MP Dawn Black, and Green candidate Jim Stephenson believe that Stephen Harper's actions on he world stage have hurt Canada's reputation.

George Monbiot wants the Alberta tar-sands industry shut down as quickly as possible. The best-selling author and environmentalist says that he would like to see large-scale direct actions to make that happen.

Stephen Harper must be stopped, and you can help accomplish this by voting for the best bet to defeat him in your riding.

Based on poll results to date, this federal election will bring a humiliating defeat to the Liberals. There are sensible reasons to vote for the other parties, but many Canadians might do so based on the Liberal “Green Shift” proposals for taxing carbon emissions. This is not a sensible reason.

Speaking today (October 10), President George W. Bush assured Americans and the world that the medicine was working: the recent US$700-billion rescue plan for Wall Street would restore order in the markets. Well, maybe, but the markets were not convinced.

The current dilemma of “vote splitting” in our federal election deserves to be redefined [“Site guides strategic vote”]. Our votes cannot be “split”; however, our votes can and very often do go unrepresented due to an outdated, unfair voting system (first past the post).

In response to Naomi Salie’s letter: we have sailed the same route in August. The number of whale-watching boats is ridiculous. Why can’t humans leave these creatures alone?

Gwynne Dyer’s article [“Comrade Bush tries his hand at banking”], what a brilliant work of satire! For example, when the FNM [Fannie Mae], FHLMC [Freddie Mac], and AIG pyramid schemes were nationalized (i.e., expropriated), it is the American public that had their assets expropriated.

There's good news for the working-class singletons in the city, as buying a home has just got a little bit easier with a 10-percent drop in Lower Mainland prices.

Real-estate consultant Jon Murray specializes in helping people buy their own homes. He uses the strategy otherwise known as “rent-to-own” homes that is thriving in an economy when home sellers are having trouble selling and buyers face a risk-averse mortgage industry.

Antipoverty advocates want federal leaders to provide solutions for the plight of homeless First Nations people, who were overrepresented in the 2008 homelessness count in the Lower Mainland.

More than 120 of Canada’s top climate scientists have signed their names to a letter calling for Canadians to vote strategically in the October 14 federal election.

UBC food researcher Gavin Wright says there is a “very large risk” that UBC Farm will be “moved and/or shrunk in size” as a result of the university’s review of its Main Campus Plan.

International finance expert Maurice Levi says there’s something “very strange” about the way the global economic crisis is unravelling.

Conservative Delta–Richmond East MP John Cummins suggests federal bureaucrats, not Conservatives, are to blame for Harper’s failure to fulfill a previous election promise to review B.C.’s leaky-condo crisis.

Vancouver photographer Patrick Tam has called upon Vancouver Kingsway Liberal candidate Wendy Yuan's campaign to apologize for a Chinese-language ad that plays up her Chinese heritage.

A former mayor of the District of North Vancouver, Murray Dykeman, died suddenly this morning.