Art & Anarchy is unleasing an anti-Olympic art show this week. In combat against the Culural Olympiad, the weeklong event features revolutionary art made by anti authoritarian artists: paint, theatre, sculpture, performance, carvings and song, all situated to confront the Olympics and destroy ca...

you could start with a basic visual aid… or perhaps appeal to their sense of patriotism… …or go with a not-so-veiled threat. of course, you could just let your ass do the talking. but remember to cite your sources. (thanks to ryan in west palm beach, heather in delaware, julie in m...

One of my students landed her first A1 story on Monday. Amanda Ash's story on auditions for the sequel to the teen vampire blockbuster "Twilight" was splashed across the front page of the Vancouver Sun. But she first alerted me, and her 130 other followers on Twitter, to the tears and tantrums at th...

Canadian engineering students try to replicate a car-hanging prank previously pulled by U.S. students - but come up horribly short. Oh, Canada. You're just like America's little brother that tries......

When I was a lad living east of Vancouver (Port Moody, Port Coquitlam and environs) my friends and I often played in the woods.  It's a bit hard to imagine now since most of the woods where we played are paved and condo'd over, but they were woods in the 70's and 80's. One of the things we had to b...

Over the weekend, a meeting of 700 Episcopalians at a Reston, Virginia, Hyatt hotel agreed that the diocese needed to take steps toward including gay and lesbian relationships into church doctrine, resolving that relationships ought to be "characterized by fidelity, monogamy, mutual affection a...

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"The real crime of the Palestinians are not the rockets, not the suicide bombers, but resistance itself: whether peaceful or violent. Non-violent protests have also evoked brutal and even murderous responses from the Israeli army. The Palestinian's very existence denies the legitimacy of the Zionist...

The original deadline has come and gone, the two sides took a few days off over the New Years Eve/Day festivities to rest up for the next session and starting this morning at nine thirty, the two sides of the Port supervisors dispute will sit down at a negotiating table to see if they can resolve th...