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The environmental 'plot' against Canada over oil sands?

Posted Fri, Jan 13, 2 a.m.

Radical U.S. environmentalists are out to get Canada! And seize the energy, oil, and wood businesses for the U.S.! Or, so a hypocritical government says.

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Heritage Turkeys of the year

Posted Mon, Jan 9, 2 a.m.

Who did most to raze, wreck, uproot, neglect, and generally trash our historic treasures in 2011? The envelopes, please...

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Best of 2011: Glittering Vancouver is now the poverty capital of Canada

Posted Fri, Dec 23, 2 a.m.

This dubious distinction points up how severe income inequality has become in Canada and the U.S. New evidence shows the terrible toll on people and economies such widening gaps can have.

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Naming Pioneer Square's alleys

Posted Mon, Dec 12, 2 a.m.

Cities are moving to reclaim and clean-up urban alleyways, and Pioneer Square is ground zero for Seattle's effort. One thing needed: names.

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Occupy action at Seattle port: going ahead without union support

Posted Sat, Dec 10, 8 p.m.

Labor unions have worked with Occupy Seattle in a number of ways, but leaders oppose shutting down a source of solid jobs.

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The greenest voters you've ever seen are in ... Vancouver

Posted Tue, Nov 29, 2 a.m.

Bike lanes downtown, backyard chickens, food trucks: voters in British Columbia gave support to the mayor's re-election.

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Gordon Clinton, elected mayor a half century ago, helped create modern Seattle

Posted Wed, Nov 23, 1 p.m.

Former Mayor Greg Nickels remembers a predecessor about whom he knew little initially.

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A powerful film examines the scandal of abandoned British children

Posted Thu, Nov 10, 9:50 a.m.

An abusive British imperial trade, exporting unwanted children to Australia and Canada, is movingly revealed in "Oranges and Sunshine." The author had a first-hand encounter with the issue.

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Redistricting away Seattle's minority representation

Posted Mon, Nov 7, 8:48 a.m.

Activists cheered the prospect of Washington's first majority-minority congressional district. Then they noticed what redistricting would do to South Seattle's legislative delegation.

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Urban ag grows up in Vancouver, even creating some political backlash

Posted Mon, Nov 7, 2 a.m.

The urban agriculture movement is gaining strength across B.C., enthusiastically adapted by everyone from businesses to backyard growers to pot-growers. So why is it being used as a wedge issue in Vancouver's latest election?

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Can Seattle get its leadership groove back?

Posted Mon, Oct 17, 2 a.m.

The secret to urban success, says Ron Sims, is regional coherence. How do you achieve that? Leadership. But where does that come from, and how does it work? History offers some examples.

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Curse or pleasure: The enduring mystery of D.B. Cooper

Posted Fri, Oct 14, 2 a.m.

A new book immerses itself in the case. Enough so that the author begins to look over his shoulder for conspirators, and manages to do that without losing the reader.

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The instigator: Adbusters founder on sowing the seeds of the 'Occupy' revolution

Posted Fri, Oct 14, 2 a.m.

Adbusters founder and editor, Kalle Lasn, reflects on his Vancouver magazine's role as Occupy Wall Street instigator and agitator, and explores the possibility of a global uprising.

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The Cascadia conundrum: Balkanized transportation

Posted Tue, Oct 4, 2 a.m.

Puget Sound is a poster child for the problems of regional transportation planning. One big roadblock: long-standing distrust of Seattle.

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Glittering Vancouver is now the poverty capital of Canada

Posted Mon, Oct 3, 2 a.m.

This dubious distinction points up how severe income inequality has become in Canada and the U.S. New evidence shows the terrible toll on people and economies such widening gaps can have.

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Seattle is killing retail by requiring too much of it

Posted Mon, Sep 19, 2 a.m.

A better model, from Britain and Vancouver, is to concentrate stores on "high streets," turning others into mostly quiet residential streets. And there are other ways to animate streets than putting in struggling shops.

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Seattle summer jobs of yore: Berry hard work

Posted Fri, Sep 9, 2 a.m.

Seattle's current Japanese-American civic leaders remember their roots as teenage farm workers, living in a city bordered by berries, not burbs. If only today's jobless teenagers were so lucky.

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Urbanism needs to move beyond city boundaries

Posted Sat, Sep 3, 3:41 p.m.

Our fractured metropolitan regions are the big problem in creating sustainable solutions for climate challenges. High-towered, dense city living is only a small part of the solution, which is to develop "ecological urbanisms."

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The new contender: British Columbia's emerging wine superstar

Posted Thu, Sep 1, 3:04 p.m.

Free trade has forced the Okanagan Valley to step up its winemaking game, which has launched British Columbia into the forefront of the Northwest winemaking world.

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The Mormons are coming!

Posted Fri, Aug 19, 2 a.m.

A book on America's "first civil war" looks at the so-called Mormon Rebellion, an event that spread fear throughout the Pacific Northwest as people worried about a new, independent theocratic state rising in the far West. The struggle has lessons for today.

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Canada Blog posts

Newt and the newts: Meet the amphibian behind the man

Posted Sun, Dec 11, 12:30 p.m. 2011

Amazing resilience may not be the only thing Gingrich and the eponymous amphibians have in common. Just ask Bob Dole and Phil Gramm.

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Midday Scan: Geezers rule, initiatives lie, salmon ail, and Rooney rants

Posted Mon, Nov 7, 10 a.m. 2011

Warning: the following survey contains material not suitable for the elderly.

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No Expo for Ecotopia

Posted Sat, Nov 5, 11:48 p.m. 2011

As Seattle prepares to celebrate 50 years as the little expo city that could, the chance for a future fair in the USA is a long way off.

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Midday Scan: Monday's top stories around the region

Posted Mon, Oct 10, 11 a.m. 2011

1492 and all that; the Vancouver editor who launched Occupy Wall Street; Westneat does Westlake; legacies of Prohibition in the liquor initiatives; and more praise for Steve Jobs' aesthetic sense amid all America's ugliness.

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Midday Scan: Monday's top stories around the region

Posted Mon, Oct 3, 11 a.m. 2011

Killing higher education and the economic future of Washington state; heavy regulation; money flow is unequal in Snohomish County race; there goes another dam; and President Obama's forgetfulness in Seattle.

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Midday Scan: Monday's top stories around the region

Posted Mon, Sep 26, 11 a.m. 2011

Political shootout in north Sound county executive's race; Alaska looks at survival in post-oil era; Boeing and Microsoft's tax breaks; and is rationed care coming to the ER?

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Review: Searching for radical pragmatism in 'This Crazy Time'

Posted Fri, Sep 30, 2 a.m. 2011

A new autobiography takes readers through the life of environmental power-activist Tzeporah Berman, from the inside of a jail cell to the Hollywood red carpet, and highlights lessons learned in the world of negotiating. 

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Midday Scan: Thursday's top stories around the region

Posted Thu, Sep 15, 11 a.m. 2011

In the news today: Seattle's former transportation director gets serious about BART, Idahoans Internet access is WAY slower than yours, and British Columbia eyes the role of geothermal king of the world.

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Midday Scan: Friday's top stories around the region

Posted Fri, Sep 9, 11 a.m. 2011

Rumbles on the waterfront; another case of Portland-envy; dubious distinction time for Washington colleges; Rose City roses for Obama's speech; and a study puts tolls on 520 under another cloud.

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Vancouver's outdoor sculpture is treat but will leave in late September

Posted Thu, Aug 25, 2 a.m. 2011

The VanDusen Botanical Garden features Zimbabwean stone carvings until Sept. 25.

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British Columbia isn't protecting its forests "The present mismanagement of our public forest lands has enormous economic and ecological consequences," writes Norm Macdonald.

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B.C. forest mismanagement is documented A member of the provincial opposition writes: "In British Columbia, which is unique in that 90 per cent of the land base is publicly owned, we rely on our government to monitor the state of our forests and take action to ensure that forests damaged by natural events are returned to a healthy, productive state. But you would be surprised by just how little the government knows about our forest lands."

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B.C. billionaire pleads guilty to charges from night of cocaine, paid sex Vancouver's David Ho, heir to a Hong Kong tobacco fortune, will pay a $5,000 fine and be on probation for a year. He is a former member of the Vancouver police board but has had run-ins with the police. This case stemmed from an incident at his mansion in the elite Shaughnessy neighborhood, where a young woman fled to a neighbor's house to call 911.

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First Nations ready for legal battle over sands-oil pipeline Leaders from First Nations governments firmly rejected a pipeline builder's proposal for a fresh start unless the federal government stops a panel intended to push through approval of a line to export Alberta oil from B.C.

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In Canada too, Conservatives fight for cuts Canada's Opposition party is mounting an offensive against Prime Minister Stephen Harper's plan to cut old-age pensions.

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