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Getting branded an “ecoterrorist” is the least of John Bennett’s concerns. “We already have been. That’s the point!” the executive director of Sierra Club Canada told the Straight...
Think of a world without junk mail and phone directories. It must be a place where newspapers are gone too. Compared to these, products like electronics are made to last much...
Talk of direct action puts some people into a tizzy. They conjure up images of masked vandals rampaging through the streets, breaking storefront windows, and hurling firebombs at...
Justin Trudeau won’t be receiving the endorsement of a group that helped stop Kevin Falcon from becoming B.C. Liberal leader in 2011. It’s the same group that backed Nathan Cullen...
A police psychologist who describes the RCMP as a "pathological" organization has won a battle against the Mounties. The College of Psychologists of B.C. has dismissed a complaint...
Just because a rout of the B.C. Liberals is widely anticipated doesn’t mean that the May 14 vote will go down as a lacklustre election. As B.C. New Democrats coast toward a likely...
They look Chinese, but they aren’t from mainland China or Hong Kong or Taiwan. As Canadians, they identify their ethnicity as Filipino, although being called Pinoy doesn’t really...
It’s a “fucking class war” in a “fucked-up city”. Anarchists have launched a “ghetto revolt” against “capitalist assholes” and “gentrifiers”, claiming responsibility for a number...
Although it was selected for earthquake proofing in 2005 along with two schools on the west side of Vancouver, an East Side elementary school is getting left behind. While a $19.1...
Before the House of Commons approved third and final reading of a bill that amends the RCMP Act, Winnipeg Centre NDP MP Pat Martin brought up the name of Edgar Schmidt. Schmidt is...

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