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Backyard Tourist: Vancouver Police Museum
1954 Harley Davidson police bike Prior to taking the Sins of the City tour featured in my last post I visited the Vancouver Police Museum, as entry is included in the price of admission to the tour....
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Artists complicit in rape of 16-year-old girl
The website requires age "authentification" to enter and view, but any kid with basic math skills can figure out a date to select. I know I might open a shit storm for saying this, but the artistic...
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Government complicit in rape of 16-year-old
Premier Gordon Campbell, champion of the masses Yesterday I wrote about the complicity of the artistic community in the creation of the violent, misanthropic, misogynist media that is adversely...
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Eastern European films explore co-opting of artists by dictatorships
A still from "Kawasaki's Rose" by Czech director Jan Hrebejk As some of you are aware, I had the good fortune to acquire a gold pass for this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival, and since...
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The Ambivalence of Remembrance
My late uncle Roger Demers, who died en route to battle, 1942. Worried about the potential of conscription, Roger joined the navy in the belief he could exercise some control over his destiny. For the...
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Debate is Dead.
Detail from “The Death of Socrates” by Jacques-Louise David (1748-1825) Okay, maybe not dead but it’s certainly terminal and what’s left of it appears to be languishing in a rarefied hospice somewhere,...
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What price life?
Sensational headlines like this don't add value to the discussion. On The National this evening was a story out of Haiti about the new disabled population created by last year’s earthquake and the...
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Radicals safeguard the middle
In a discussion with a reader over a previous post, I was asked what I thought of a group of German feminists who claim heterosexual sex is oppressive to women. The question was stupid and off topic...
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Writers Under Attack Again
The above video was posted on YouTube in the hope of stopping an educational exemption in the proposed new copyright bill. Whether or not the exemption is fair-dealing or the video fear-mongering (as...
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Dear Vancouver media: Thanks for nothing.
Dear Vancouver Media: Vancouver, as you know, is in mourning. For our reputation, for those who suffered injury, for the loss of joy at having gone so far in the Stanley Cup. But in the outrage over...
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