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B.C.'s liquor rules still sting

B.C.'s Liquor Distribution Branch reaps the profits of a monopoly that dates back to Prohibition—and many want that changed.

Euthanasia: Whose death is it anyway?

As medical costs rise and the boomers age, public attitudes are changing about who gets to decide when life should end.

Change etched on Turkish valley

The Gí¶reme Valley of Cappadocia, a region in central Turkey, contains one of Earth’s most unusual landscapes.

Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson an ambitious dreamer

Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson has proven that idealists can succeed in politics—with shrewd backroom tacticians.

Desert games in Mongolia pay tribute to Genghis Khan

In the topsy-turvy world of modern Mongolia—where Communism succumbed in the early '90s to neoconservative capitalism, where Buddhism is yielding to evangelical Christianity,...

Who were B.C.’s first seafarers?

In the past 100 years, a lot of Eurocentric views of history have collapsed, and a lot of stories once viewed as fantastical have proven true. Chinese myths and tenuous...

Life imitates art in Beijing’s creative 798 Art Zone

For anyone intrigued by the shape of the rough beast slouching this way, there is really only one word: China.

Passion and the pulpit

Lifting a shroud of secrecy, some gay Catholic and Anglican priests are challenging the fire and the brimstone.

Sexual freedom

The 900-pound gorilla is the thing you can't see. It's usually just out of sight, an intimidating presence, like the propriety of a dead grandmother, or the pious dicta of a...

The Wisdom of Forgiveness, by the Dalai Lama and Victor Chan

By the Dalai Lama and Victor Chan. Riverhead Books, 262 pp, $36, hardcover.