4TheRcrd Mag.

Bill C-52 will put that to a stop! have willingly self-shamed myself for allowing myself to be so busy co-running a business, working long hours and 7 day weeks; that I have totally forgotten about the world around our little business. My sources to keeping me up-to-date are our customers, with a recent wake-up call [...]

Above: Jacob Amoah (7) Asebu, Ghana It’s 6:30 am in Asebu, a rural community in central Ghana. All of the orphans at Asebu’s Home of Hope are fetching water for their morning baths, all of them except Jacob. ‘Jo’ as he is sometimes called, is hiding in the bushes behind his home with feces running [...]

Til recently, this slogan was, in my mind, no more than another exploited fashion stamp seen around Vancouver, similar to the Keffiyeh. Having a mild aversion to reading newspapers and a shameful tendency to remain blissfully ignorant of the troubles of the global community, I knew only vaguely that China had seized Tibet, which had [...]

Hmmm. Call me paranoid, but is it me or has there been a steady flux of Super-American-Heroe s invading the silver screen since 9-11? Pop-cultural-wise, what does this mean to us the hapless consumers? When we are current laid seige by a barrage of Alien red caped wonders, Home-grown genetic mutants, the spider-bittens and the [...]

Every where you turn, there is violence. In schools, in the streets, and even at home. You cannot watch the news without hearing about the war in Iraq. It’s ridiculous, and tragic. Yet hear I am, lying comfortably on my couch with my family watching Legends of the Fall. A movie about love, history, and [...]

Here’s a roundup of gender issues going down this week: In Ghana, around 200 Liberian women refugees were arrested at the Buduburam Refugee Settlement for protesting against their forced return to Liberia by stripping themselves naked. The UNHCR is planning to send the refugees back with a paltry amount of $100. The women are asking [...]

Z-Day has come and gone. March 15th was the official date for world wide events, based around the viewing of the movie Zeitgeist. Multiple venues around Vancouver were involved in housing viewings. If you haven’t watched this monumental think-piece of a movie, you are missing out. Whether you decide to take Zeitgeist as verbatim truth [...]

“[During the Hippie Movement]…You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . . And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t [...]

Unfortunately not all International Women’s Day celebrations were as fun-filled as the ones here on 4TheRcrd. In Iran, the containment of women’s gatherings in the past kept women from celebrating publicly and this year, many women confined themselves to gatherings in their private homes. Last year, 10 women were arrested on International Women’s Day at [...]

Vancouver’s becoming like NYC: I’m deeply troubled with this — when are the robins coming, check these lines. (1) In the wake of another targeted shooting this weekend, Vancouver police are admitting their solve rate is low; and then this on: (2) The force is solving half as many gang hits as other murders; or [...]