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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Romancing the retro Thank you for the update on the demise of the Terrace Roller Skating Rink (NOW, March 15-21). It saddens me and makes me furious that the city...

UP FRONT
This government is setting a gold standard for species protection. How can Natural Resources Minister David Ramsay save endangered species when he’s selling the boreal forest they depend on to...

News Feature HOW FAIR IS YOUR ECO GEAR?
Don’t assume Big Apparel’s organic threads are sweatshop-free
Someone must have slipped some thing in my water, because a giant two-dimensional sex kitten seems to be beckoning me to try on a bamboo bra. A few feet later,...
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News LOSING OUR TRAIN OF THOUGHT
Forgotten in light rail dream scheme is how proposed lines will stress already cramped downtown transit
"Talent," wrote playwright Robert McKee, "is the innate power to discover the hidden connection between two things." And one of the fastest vehicles is metaphor, literally a transfer from one...

News REALITY CHECK
Why commit millions to a Spadina subway extension when miles more track of light rail could be built for a fraction of the cost? Remember the Sheppard subway?
Why Spadina's a bad idea • How do we count the ways? This stub of a line will cost a staggering $2 billion (not including cost overruns), will cover little...

News STARBUCKS’ ETHOS ALL WET
Can bottled water save the world? Starbucks believes Ethos Water can. But what's the eco-conscious trendsetter doing bottling this premium resource in the first place? What the label won't tell...

News STEALING WATER DAY
You might be surprised to discover there are two competing walks this weekend promoting World Water Day. On the surface, they may look identical, but underneath, two very different forces...

News BIG-BOX ROADBLOCK
Can bike lanes save the east end from mega-store takeover?
Could it be that the creeping shadow of a big-box invasion is fuelling the current dust-up over an eastend bike lane? The question comes easily to mind watching cycling promoters...

News DREADING WAL-MART
Wal-Town, the doc on how Wal-Mart is contributing to the cycle of poverty in neighbourhoods across Canada, couldn't have come at a more poignant time for the 50 gathered for...
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News YANK ACTION HERO
300 fits right in with propaganda of U.S. “war on terror”
Being cultural adviser to iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad must be one of the more thankless jobs on the planet, but Javad Shamghadri manages to keep busy. His latest foray is...

News PEACE DANCE
Demo organizers could have used some border collies to marshal their message
As Marilyn Churley exhorts the crowd to form a peace sign in front of City Hall to cheer nuclear-free Mayor David Miller, I open and read randomly from the Qur'an...

News STENCH OF SELF-INTEREST
Why are the courts protecting their own from prosecution for egregious errors?
Apparently, the work done by participants in the justice system is so vital to public order that protective cocoons need to be spun around them. If judges and prosecutors had...