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Read Friday's Vancouver Sun for stories and reviews of the big movies opening this week, including George Clooney starring in The Descendants. Critic Jay Stone says: "Clooney has never been better in a role that asks us to ignore his improbably good looks and see, instead, a baffled and unhinged tragedy in a Hawaiian shirt. Movie ads are always telling us that we'll laugh and we'll cry. In The Descendants, you really will."

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Craig McInnes

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Craig McInnes is a member of the Editorial Board of The Vancouver Sun. He has been looking at how Canadians govern themselves for more than 25 years. After covering the Health, Environment and Urban Affairs beats for The Globe and Mail, he served as the Queen's Park Bureau Chief before coming home to Victoria, where he has been writing about the political scene for the past decade.

Read Craig McInnes' blog, Feeling the Heat. Craig McInnes looks at the choices we make, the science and the politics of climate change and the world around us.

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Cayo: Canada can never insulate itself from global economic turmoil

If you feel like a helpless bystander caught up in the economic maelstrom buffeting the globe - and it doesn't matter if you're the prime minister with a nation to run, a retiree getting by on a non-indexed pension, or a wage-earner struggling to balance the family budget - this sense of powerlessness may well be a sign you understand the essence of what's happening around the world.