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The Big Download Whacks Cities As feds and province keep cutting, 86 BC mayors meet to share their pain.
North Island College Cutting Down on Face Time Two satellite campuses shut down in rural BC in favour of online learning.
Should We Subsidize Work? Government wage top-ups could spell the end of the working poor. Last in a series on anti-poverty policy ideas.
The Future of Education Is Here... It's just not evenly distributed. Canada needs to wake up to competition.

The Big Download Whacks Cities As feds and province keep cutting, 86 BC mayors meet to share their pain.
North Island College Cutting Down on Face Time Two satellite campuses shut down in rural BC in favour of online learning.
Should We Subsidize Work? Government wage top-ups could spell the end of the working poor. Last in a series on anti-poverty policy ideas.
What About Just Guaranteeing Everyone a Basic Income? Doing so for all Canadians could almost erase poverty, or dry up labour sources, depending on whom you ask.
Feds Not Standing on Guard for Canada's Water: Experts As threats mount, lack of science and legal recourse 'cripple' officials.
Gov't Moving to Keep Farm Disease Outbreaks Secret Changes to Animal Health Act, said to protect public, slammed by NDP, privacy commissioner.
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I Breast-fed My Preschooler. Big Whoop. Time magazine tackles attachment parenting and its vitriolic haters. Is this a necessary war?
'Cagey' Clark's Pipeline Prevarications Premier won't take position on Northern Gateway but calls NDP concerns 'goofy' and 'gobbledygook.'
Van Dongen No Hero to Me Pundits celebrating BC Lib defector's Railgate statements should dredge up his fish farm file.
Tough on Crime? Not When It Comes to Workplace Deaths Law exists to prosecute criminally reckless employers. Why just six tries in 20 years?
Bill C-38: the Environmental Destruction Act Packing so many attacks on nature into one bill, Harper bets, will confuse citizens. Here's what's at stake.
Why We Stopped the Coal Train And why risking arrest was the right thing to do. An account from the railway tracks.
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The Future of Education Is Here... It's just not evenly distributed. Canada needs to wake up to competition.
Ban Billboards, Fund Journalism! In São Paulo, advertisers blocked from buying signboard space support publications instead.
Is There a Better Way to Spend $750 Million? Media merger payouts are huge. Are we putting them to the best use?
Web Domain Agency to Public: We Don't Trust You Planned changes to board election process of Canada's dot-ca registrar weakens members' role.
How to Rescue Canadian Journalism Reporters, academics and activists brainstormed in Montreal. Kai Nagata was there.
Blame Boomers or Fat Cats? Debate Rolls from Tyee to Sun and Back Gutstein vs. Kershaw on who's squeezing the under-45s.
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Vancouver's Underground Music Lab Inside Nite Prison studio, where cross-genre bands breed the city's newest sounds.
The Video Game Music Master Tunes from old school games still charm, but Jim Guthrie's new soundtrack is next level.
'The Fallacy' and 'Scarlet Road' Two very different docs challenge conceptions of sex work. See both at Vancouver's DOXA.
'The Avengers' How to make the ol' superhero blockbuster fresh? Try letting a quirky cult-meister direct.
Mark Haney's Hidden Structures The local composer writes an odd number about Terry Fox.
Does a Bear Pose in the Woods? And more ideas raised by 'Bear 71', the interactive documentary kicking off this year's DOXA. Plus more fest picks.
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Taras Grescoe's Excellent Adventure on Public Transit The author of 'Straphanger' on global riders, killing fares, SkyTrain and more. Plus an excerpt on mobile Vancouverism.
'Tiny Homes, Simple Shelter' Lloyd Kahn's new compendium takes readers inside the marvelous little world of scaled-back housing.
Tony Judt's Last Act: Sounding the Alarm Brilliant historian's final book reminds us 'democracies corrode quite fast.'
Ten Novels Every Aspiring Writer Should Read TYEE LIST #9: Put down that pen and curl up with these giants.
Peter Newman: 'Finally Unmasked Me' Bestselling author laughingly blasts critical review by Tyee's Crawford Kilian.
'Stranger on a Strange Island' Grant Buday trades city life for Mayne Island, and discovers an entirely new social order.
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Celebrating the Difficult Mother A salute to tired, mercurial, fierce moms like mine. Plus, a poem for this weekend.
Politicians with Hair on Their Faces Beards once conveyed wisdom, then became dirty, but now Tom Mulcair tops polls. Combing the political history of facial hair.
Seven Ways to Help Folks Fall in Love with Cycling TYEE LIST #14: Wheels got you reeling? Notes on pedaling's softer side.
'Demagogalgia' Or, why we like politicians more the farther they are from power.
Vancouver Needs a Brooklyn, and New West Could Be It Why I'm glad I made a creative decision to move from East Van.
Seven Ways to Empower Your Wired Teen TYEE LIST #13: With mobile power comes great responsibility. A teacher's tipsheet.
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