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Deconstructing a Canadian Indian in the privacy of your own home Steinhauer hammer finishing around lettering at base of "Surviving Genocide". A light snow was falling onto the green grass. Looking at...
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Beautiful -- Privatized -- British Columbia?
Health care workers, teachers, fight government over policy When British Columbia's teachers defied laws passed by Gordon Campbell's Liberals to stage an "illegal strike" in October, it was the second...
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Card Carriers
Artist's Trading Cards (ATCs) are art for everyone The only rules for ATCs are that they measure the standard card size and that they be exchanged for other cards.There is a new currency on the market...
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The Project of a New Canadian University Begins...
What would a university based on principles of ecology and social justice look like? It is key that the university become a community onto itself but also be intimately interconnected with the...
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Reconstructing Disaster
Profiteers and Pink Slips Ravage the Gulf Coast George Bush and Joe Allbaugh in 2001. Formerly Bush's campaign manager and FEMA head, Allbaugh now works as a lobbyist. photo: FEMA Three months have...
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McOrganic?
Is corporate organic changing the organic landscape in Canada? Is organic agriculture mirroring the global industrial agriculture system it was created to combat?"Would you like an Organic Fair...
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Masala and the Rainforest
Future of Kermode bear and rainforest "uncertain" The Kermode bear's distinctive white coloring appears in roughly 30 per cent of the bears in the Spirit Bear Rainforest. photo: ronthiele.com The...
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Give 'em the Boot!
Zapatistas and solidarity activists are taking 'non-sweat' apparel to a new level. All profits from the boots go back to the Zapatista community. photo: Students Taking Action in ChiapasIt's been...
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December Books
Modern and Normal Karen Solie Brick Books: London, Ont., 2005.The compressed spaces of these poems string together to form a hard, true collection like a series of cruddy motel rooms in which someone...
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Where's The Boss?
Worker cooperatives will change the way you think about democracy Conference participants discuss different models for worker cooperatives. photo: Dru Oja JayPeter Cameron is sipping a pint of fair...
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Remembering Bureaucracy
Not all war veterans are remembered Jules Paivio receives no veterans' benefits for fighting in the Spanish Civil War. photo: Rachel RosenIt is the year of the veteran, and as cannons blare and...
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Tremblay's Remote Control
How City Hall's 'closed bureaucratic culture' continues to drive Montreal away from sustainability According to critics, Tremblay is not listening to sustainable solutions that Montreal citizens...
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December
Deck: Download Issue #32 [2.1MB, pdf] Body: Download Issue #32 [2.1 MB, pdf]Issue #32 is formatted as sixteen pages of letter sized paper (8.5x11"). (You need Acrobat Reader or an application that...
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Land Claims and Treaties and Bands, Oh My!
First Ministers' Meeting coverage begins and ends with official story When those with decision making power and access to the media come to a consensus, it is often easy to conclude that their account...
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Of Sturgeon and Hydro Québec
Food from the rivers we are losing Illustration by Sylvia Nickerson On Saturday, November the 5th, 2005, Hydro Quebec flooded another 600 square kilometres of James Bay territory to fill in a new...
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