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Last week, the Vancouver Public Library Foundation issued a news release announcing that its chair, Terry Salman, was being honoured by the Vancouver Public Library.
 
 
 
The policy of propping up dictators to maintain political and economic stability is a risky one. It might work for years or decades, although at a constant humanitarian cost. When it fails, though, it fails catastrophically, and perversely, undermines...
 
 
 
It has been exactly 62 years, two months and two weeks since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by 48 members of the United Nations General Assembly on Dec. 10, 1948. Only eight were opposed, including six nations that fell under...
 
 
 
 
 
 
Kim Bolan

Police Investigating a Surrey Shooting - UPDATE

A 20-year-old man is recovering in hospital after being found by police suffering from a gunshot wound...

The Real Scoop
 
 
Barbara Yaffe

Libya As Global Bad Boy

The world is grappling this week with the way it should invoke a far-reaching principle that the United...

Power Play
 
 
Gillian Shaw

Google cracks down on content farms, SEO spam

Google is targeting content farms with an algorithmic improvement aimed at improving search results ...

Digital Life
 
 
 
 
Ian Mulgrew

Opinion: Conservatives' tough-on-crime agenda based on false premises

The Conservative administration in Ottawa continues to advocate U.S. Republican-...

 
Cam Cole

Whatever you do Phil, don't mention Rickie's pink shoes

Items that may grow up to be columns, Vol. XIII, Chapter 6:

 
Vaughn Palmer

Opinion: Gordon Campbell digging around in the 'dirt'

While Premier Gordon Campbell has mostly operated in caretaker mode during the B...

 
Craig McInnes

Opinion: With BC Hydro, conservation means saving more - and paying more

In the fall of 2009, Victoria residents learned how successful we have been at responding...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Community of Interest

A boy chants anti-government slogans during demonstrations at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Monday, where protesters dug in for a long fight in their effort to force reforms to Egypt's political system.

Rousseau, Nasser and the Egyptian revolution

In watching the live streaming coverage of the Egyptian revolution on Aljazeera I am awe-struck by the...


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Op-Ed

B.C. environmentalists engaged in voter education

Our crystal ball is malfunctioning. Yet there are those who seem to think we've got access to divine...


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Reduced waiting times are good for our health

As we, and those vying for political leadership in British Columbia, debate the merits of the HST, let...


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Americans are meddling in B.C. politics

On Saturday, members of the B.C. Liberal party will choose a new leader who will immediately become ...


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The legacy of the Village on False Creek

In Chicago on Nov. 15, 2010, the Vancouver Olympic Village was awarded the United Nations Environmental...


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Opinion: Editorial Blogs

 

Dispatches

International Affairs Columnist Jonathan Manthorpe watches global...


 

Everybody's Business

For 30 years, Harvey Enchin has been studying Canadian economic...


 

Think Tank

Daphne Bramham looks at the most pressing issues affecting the...


 

Taxing Issues

Vancouver Sun business columnist Don Cayo exercises both his...


 

The Search

Although he was raised in a family of staunch atheists, Douglas...


 

Pacific Currents

Sorry, Vancouver, we're not in the Top 20 of global cities...


 

Gone Wild

You'd think Larry Pynn would have heard or seen all things outdoors...


 

Social Studies

Shelley Fralic's insightful take on pop culture, social trends...


 

The Report Card

An independent look at the B.C. education system.


 

Dispatches

International Affairs Columnist Jonathan Manthorpe watches global...


 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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