aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Tis the season for top-ten lists, head colds and craft fairs. Don't let the God dandruff stop you from going out this weekend because there's a ton of stuff happening. For the more comfy, crafty crowd check out the Scout List. Or for a more low-brow...

topics: activist, author, cafe, commercial-drive, concert

aggregated from: VanRamblings

With just three days to the end of the 28th annual Vancouver International Film Festival, Mr. Know-It-All and 'Showbiz' Shayne are hard at it, catching as many of the remaining VIFF films as is humanly possible. Your dynamic duo managed to...

topics: activist, documentary, environment, environmental, film-festival

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

adfero-logo.jpg Adfero and Bonner's actions are planned and deliberateYou can't convict someone of a crime unless you can prove that the accused was acting with intent - that they did what they did o...

topics: activist, business, crime, elected, politician

aggregated from: Bill Tieleman

What a sneaky, underhanded and rotten this BC Liberal government is!What a rotten, unexpected and unfair decision came down on the Friday afternoon of a long weekend - intentionally to avoid negative media reports.And what a negative and potentially ...

topics: activist, business, election, liberal, liberals

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

Allan Hunt Badiner, AlterNetWhen you read any press story abut things you know about, you always realise how limited the view of the journalist is. I get two news alerts a day from Alternet, which promises a different view from the mainstream media. ...

topics: activist, city-of-vancouver, environment, investment, planning

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

City staff want to blast homeless out of parking lots. In a new budget to be heard by City Council on Tuesday, city staff are apparently proposing blasting homeless with noise at city owned parking lots . And here I was thinking that we elected some...

topics: activist, beach, city-council, downtown, downtown-eastside

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

I don t understand& why is it OK for Canada to prohibit Chinese companies from buying Canadian natural resources corporations and why is it OK for the US to stock up strategic reserves but it s not OK for China to protect its own natural resources?Ke...

topics: activist, economy, union

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Scared residents still want temporary homeless shelters shut down. Aw, come on, watching the drug dealers and toy-dog walkers vie for bench space at Emery Barnes has made year two of life in Yaletown existentially bearable. To be honest, sticking ho...

topics: abbotsford, activist, yaletown

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Hong Kong s former pop superstar Annita Mui ( ) was involved deeply into the Project Siskin ( ), a pro-democracy secret campaign that helped bring hundreds of student leaders of the Tiananmen Massacre and other Chinese dissiden...

topics: activist, concert, marathon, political, politics

aggregated from: Terry Glavin

Since the 1970s, the journalist and human-rights activist Peter Tatchell has been a singularly brave and principled voice for justice and human decency. It would be hard to name anyone in left-activist circles, anywhere in the English-speaking world,...