Urban Jungle: The Bladerunners Story
December 7, 2004
Am Johal
Vancouver, British Columbia, has a long and storied history as a real city inhabited by real people -- a history punctuated by multi-billion dollar attempts to woo the world with projects like Expo 86 and, now, the Olympics. How do mega projects such as these shape the lives of a city built on Native land?

Colombia and Venezuela: Labour in Canada builds solidarity
December 7, 2004
Derrick O'Keefe
After a noon hour rally to protest the occupation of Iraq and the presence of U.S. President Bush on November 30, delegates to the BC Federation of Labour convention in Vancouver sat down for an evening of solidarity with their brothers and sisters in Colombia and Venezuela. Both countries are, in different ways, squarely in the crosshairs of Bush and his ilk, and both urgently call forth the best traditions of internationalism in the labour movement.
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On December 6, 1989, a lone gunman entered an engineering class at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and massacred 14 women, after having separated the men from the women and telling the men to leave. December 6 is now a national day of remembrance and action on violence against women. Dana Ayotte was one of the organizers of a day-long event held December 6 in Vancouver at the main branch of the Public Library.

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