The very thought of it brings to mind warm, loving families, cozy fireplaces, sugar plum fairies, and the very gifts you’ve been secretly hoping for. Definitely the ...

Vancouver Civic Election 2011: His bio says he’s a hockey player, but these days, it’s hard to imagine that Trevor Loke has any time to spend at the rink. Apart from holding down his day job as ...

Late last week, a ridiculous bombshell dropped in the news. John Kerry announced that he has “doubts” that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Finally, an American who is willing to stand up and declare “I ...

One of the best books I have ever read about Canadian political history is a slim volume by Peter Russell, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at University of Toronto. His book, Two Cheers for ...

Editors and students gathered last week at USC to pay tribute to Sally Menke, A.C.E., editor of the iconic Pulp Fiction. During her career, Menke was nominated for two Academy Awards, two Eddie Awards ...

Munisha Tumato is a Vancouver-based journalist with an interest in food justice, land access, the environment and issues around gender and race. She's a graduate of the UBC School of Journalism.

George W. Bush plus the Tea Party equals Rick Perry, says the website ThinkProgress.org. The popular Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate, currently neck-and-neck with Michele ...

On a rainy afternoon in October, Jill Winzoski, a 38 year old reporter at The Selkirk Record, walked into her boss' small office and took a deep breath. That morning, Winzoski's editor had told her ...

The right to freedom of expression includes symbolic speech. The tent community of Occupy Vancouver, filled with protestors and homeless people, is a symbol of the inequitable wealth distribution at ...

Will Ferrell has made some good ones, like Anchorman and Talladega Nights. Get Hard is not an equal. Better to check out John Boorman’s new one, a Hungarian animal rebellion or a creepy teen ...

Welcome to our post-Halloween sugar blues daze. With hundred of new books crossing my desk, and my eyes, each month, I'm jazzed to point you to this new one: Builders of the Pacific Coast, by Lloyd ...

Vancouver’s health authority has applied for two new supervised−injection sites to combat the drug overdose crisis. Vancouver Coastal Health says the proposed sites would be embedded into existing ...