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{Editors Note: This is a useful post from our friends at ForestEthics, and we’re proud to reproduce it here.} Exactly five years ago, the United States Congress created the immensely popular Do Not Call Registry, giving every American the choice to live free of telemarketing calls. Today, we’re still forced to live with a different [...]

“[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 [...]

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 [...]

{Editors Note: This is a little something passed on to us from ForestEthics}: The Tar Sands of Alberta, Canada is the largest and fastest growing fossil fuel project in the world. Development is releasing toxic emissions and leveling huge swaths of fragile Boreal Forest and poisoning down stream communities. Most of the oil is being [...]

{Editors Note: This is a little something passed on to us from ForestEthics}: For the last six months, Sears Holdings Corporation has been hearing from activists and concerned custumers telling them to stop destroying Endangered Forests to make 425 million catalogs a year. They have received thousands of emails and faxes, and they’ve faced well [...]

In 2003, the BC Energy Plan was made official by the BC government. This legal agreement gives public rivers away to corporations for free. Those corporations are then given public funding to build hydro power stations. After the station is built, publicly owned BC Hydro is committed to buying power from the private corporation at [...]

Let’s send off the wee little ones to get indoctrinated a few years earlier why don’t we. The talks are happening on our lovely west-coast to have “all day kindergarten for kids as young as three in BC:” no decisions have been made on how or even if the Government will go ahead with the [...]

An explosion rocked the 600 block of Broadway at approximately 2:30am Wednesday morning. This incident is currently under criminal investigation and is classified as a suspicious fire. The three shops at ground zero are Taco Del mar, Starbucks and Angela fashion. Police Spokesperson, Cst. Tim Fanning, has said that the fire began in Taco Del [...]