Refugee Omerjan Böre, who recently joined pro-Tibet and Falun Gong activists protesting at the Chinese Consulate, says China's Uyghur minority faces the same situation as the Tibetans.

Burnaby mayor Derek Corrigan says his Burnaby Citizens’ Association’s council majority is already “the longest-serving government in B.C.”

A Tsawwassen group of parents doesn’t relish the prospect of B.C. Transmission Corporation power lines being “six metres” from the library at the town's only high school.

Unhappy with the Eagleridge highway-expansion process, Counc. Vivian Vaughan has decided to knock the one-term incumbent, Pamela Goldsmith-Jones, off her perch in November.

The upcoming Sacramento Peak Oil Conference will not feature any Canadian politicians. U.S. politicians who will speak at the September 21 to 23 conference include Huntington Beach mayor Debbie Cook and Connecticut legislator Terry Backer. The event also features CIBC World Markets chief economist Jeff Rubin and David Hughes of the Geological Survey of Canada.

A strange hush has descended over the question of safety on Manitoba’s highways following the deaths during Canada Day weekend of two cyclists.

If you ask former NPA councillor Alan Herbert, he’ll tell you that gay clubs are still very relevant in Vancouver’s social fabric.

Before a rally in Tofino on Saturday, Friends of Clayoquot Sound claims that an open-pit mine would remove the top third of the mountain, which would result in significant environmental damage.

Happy Planet juice and marijuana clearly don’t mix.

Both NPA councillor Suzanne Anton and COPE park board commissioner Spencer Herbert ride their bikes regularly.

Though the environment is often cited as a top concern by politicians of all stripes, UBC professor Michael Byers has put in the hard miles researching one place now in the news: the Canadian Arctic.

A New York City police officer was stripped of his gun and badge after a tourist’s video posted on YouTube showed the cop bodychecking a cyclist during the month-end July Critical Mass bicycle ride in the Big Apple.

It happened by accident, but as I crossed the Grandview Cut by bike going south on Commercial Drive the other night, I hit upon the cheap seats for the Celebration of Light.

NPA mayoral hopeful Peter Ladner confronts Vancouver's socioeconomic underbelly before council looks at reports on the area's “economic revitalization”.

A queer-community activist long known for his Green credentials told the Straight he has joined COPE and wants to run for the park board under their banner in November.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ordered a Nanaimo man to pay $179,644.50 in damages, after finding he had published extensive defamatory comments on the Internet about a Sydney, Australia-based man from May 2003 to this April.

Less than two years after approving an expansion of the Vancouver Aquarium footprint, park board commissioners are set to vote on increasing the footprint of the neighbouring Brockton Totem Poles Interpretative Centre in Stanley Park.

A self-described “disgruntled” COPE member and former treasurer told the Georgia Straight that he believes the civic party should run its own mayoral candidate in November’s civic election.

An Argentine-Canadian radiologist whose allegations of discrimination are before the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal will have her case heard in full next spring.

Tibetan Buddhist teacher Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche believes the Dalai Lama’s visits to the West and the West’s acceptance of the Tibetan spiritual leader’s central message of peace and compassion are a “victory for basic goodness”.

Tibetan Buddhist teacher Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche believes the Dalai Lama’s visits to the West and the West’s acceptance of the Tibetan spiritual leader’s central message of peace and compassion are a “victory for basic goodness”.

Cycling is increasingly important as a viable means of transportation accessible to many members of society, but advocates say real investment in improvement projects is needed.

Despite being outspoken when it comes to Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, the controversial and newly installed foreign affairs minister, David Emerson, is staying mum when it comes to his reelection prospects.

In the fall of 2005 and summer of 2006, I crisscrossed (eastbound and westbound) Manitoba’s section of the Trans-Canada Highway; the same stretch just east of Virden, MB, where two cyclists were tragically killed while on their cross-country fundraising tour this past month.

A community activist believes Olympic pressures have forced the planned $20-million replacement of the Trout Lake Community Centre off the table for the city’s upcoming three-year capital plan.

At a meeting on Monday (July 7) at Killarney Community Centre, park-board commissioners will decide the fate of 70 trees in Queen Elizabeth Park.

Perennial Critical Mass participant Steve Kisby told the Straight that the June 27 bicycle ride drew “over 2,000 participants”.

An Ottawa-based democracy campaigner told the Straight that Health Minister Tony Clement could theoretically benefit from a loophole in federal conflict-of-interest legislation.

The long-time former city councillor sometimes known as “Apparatchik” Tim Louis or Tim “Che Guevara” Louis said he plans to have another run at a council slot for COPE in November’s civic election.

Despite the push in the U.S. by Republican presidential hopeful John McCain for new nuclear reactors, B.C. Hydro's CEO believes this is not a feasible option politically or practically for his company.

Vancouver’s youngest civic politician told the Georgia Straight that Premier Gordon Campbell has slapped the gay and lesbian community in the face by appointing B.C. Liberal Langley MLA Mary Polak to provincial cabinet.

Business owners, economists, and faith groups are about to up the ante in opposition to the B.C. NDP-led opposition to Premier Gordon Campbell’s gas tax.

With the Exxon Valdez oil spill approaching its 20th anniversary, the legal aftershock rumbles on in the U.S. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court slashed the US$2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 disaster to US$500 million.

The results are in, and Bike to Work Week 2008 has proven a huge success, with more than 7,000 comments submitted to the Bike to Work Week Team for the event that happened between May 26 and June 1 this year.

Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson missed the opening ceremonies of the Dragon Boat Festival.

It’s official. After securing the Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination June 15, Gregor Robertson has left the (provincial) building.

It may not be time to call him Coun. Peter Singh Ladner, but the NPA’s mayoral candidate has promised to emulate Mayor Sam Sullivan and brush up on the city’s most prominent South Asian language as the November civic election approaches.

A Vancouver author and heritage advocate has told the Straight he is willing to put his body on the line to prevent the bulldozing of Stanley Park's famous Hollow Tree.

U.S. President George W. Bush’s call on Congress to lift a 27-year ban on offshore drilling in U.S. coastal waters is a geopolitical shot that will resound worldwide.

During his victory speech at the Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination on June 15, Gregor Robertson told the crowd that Vancouverites face the twin issues of “climate change and peak oil”.

1. COPE’s 1996 mayoral candidate Carmela Allevato sprung out of the shadows to join 2008 Vision mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson on-stage after the vote count at the Croatian Cultural Centre.

It was a fitting moment in what was a very convivial and festive not-quite-car-free Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination June 15.

No second ballot was necessary as NDP Vancouver-Fairview MLA Gregor Robertson was selected by Vision membership to take on NPA councillor Peter Ladner in November's civic election.

Minister defends a bill proposing tough regulations and policing for the industry.

Organizers of the four Car-Free Vancouver Day festivals that will happen across the city on Sunday (June 15) might think the concept is red hot, but they’ve received a lukewarm response from some business associations.

COPE councillor David Cadman told the Straight it could take “a little longer” than a week to decide whether he will run for mayor in the November civic election.

Saskatchewan’s provincial government said no thanks 10 months ago, and now Yukon has rejected the controversial Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement.

Superstition stops me from revealing my plans, says “Buddhist Catholic” Coun. B.C. Lee. When the Straight swung by Lee’s City Hall office for an interview, this reporter interrupted the NPA councillor during a meditation session.

A Kamloops-based constitutional lawyer believes Bill C-51’s overarching enforcement powers and limiting of access to natural health products will result in the deaths of thousands of Canadians.

Chris Shaw points to security costs of past Olympic host cities to prove his claim that Vancouver has lowballed its budget of $175 million.