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Articles of Section 'Straight Issues'.

Straight Issues

Calls for domestic probe into 9/11

Drew Noftle and other Vancouver-based 9/11 truth seekers are heading east, holding rallies in different cities before linking up with other crusaders from across the country for a march to Ottawa.
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South Delta parents oppose power lines

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.
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Transgender rights still unenshrined

Campaigners say that while the B.C. Human Rights Code prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex and sexual orientation, it doesn’t protect transgender people.
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Downtown Eastside seeks new lease on life

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

Do you favour a smoking ban on beaches?
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Tri-Cities cyclists squeezed

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.
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Development as colonialism

Richmond councillor Harold Steves says that the continuing attempt to develop the 55-hectare Garden City Lands is a classic example of why Native peoples should be vigilant about in their dealings with the government.
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Accident kills cyclists on diabetes fundraising ride

A Quebec cyclist who left Stanley Park with his two children less than three weeks ago on a fundraising ride has been killed in Manitoba.
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Multiple ways to tax carbon

Carbon taxes are old news in Europe, but in Canada provincial and federal politicians are still wrangling about the cost of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions in order to abate global warming.
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Vancouver mayor's powers questioned

Vancouver has grown from a very small West Coast city into a major one that needs to evaluate whether or not its existing governance system remains relevant to its needs.
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Non-Partisan Association has "a fighting chance"

The Non-Partisan Association wasn’t exactly looking for a crushing victory over the opposition this fall when it selected Coun. Peter Ladner over incumbent Mayor Sam Sullivan as its mayoral candidate.
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Jenny Kwan wants PM to back off supervised-injection site

The NDP MLA for Vancouver–Mount Pleasant has introduced a member’s bill to have Insite designated as a provincial health facility, so that the federal government wouldn’t be able to shut it down without a messy court fight.
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TransLink ads "frustrating"

According to light-rail advocate Malcolm Johnston, any transit authority that encourages people to do anything but take transit in the age of high gas prices is “incompetent”.
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Taser boss invokes Star Trek

Taser International Inc. chair Tom Smith told the Braidwood Inquiry that his company's weapons aren’t entirely risk-free, but stressed that the stun gun actually prevents other injuries and even deaths.
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Is Bill C-51 a crackdown on natural health?

A former New Democrat MP says the Conservative government’s proposed amendments to the Food and Drugs Act come from big pharma lobbying.
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B.C. lags in Asian education

According to a study, secondary-school students in the province are not learning enough about Asia, a part of the world that is a major source of new immigrants to Canada.
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Is B.C. ready for peak-oil refugees?

If Kitsilano-based strategic planner Richard Balfour's predictions are correct, “20 to 30 million people” could be living in the Georgia Basin in the next 15 to 20 years.
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Global warming hits home

Big-box stores may not be popular with some Van­couverites, but Hadi Dowlatabadi thinks they could play a critical role in helping the elderly survive climate change.
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Metro Vancouver homeless count hides many

As a volunteer in this year’s homeless count, Michelle Patterson didn’t expect to find a lot in her assigned section in Vancouver’s West End. But she found four homeless men.
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By 2010, Mayor Sam Sullivan’s Project Civil City aims to cut homelessness by 50 percent. Is this a pipe dream?

By 2010, Mayor Sam Sullivan’s Project Civil City aims to cut homelessness by 50 percent. Is this a pipe dream?

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Gold rush on B.C. rivers stalled

Despite the denial of a power line placing seven run-of-river projects in the Upper Pitt River region on hold, B.C.'s rivers remain the subject of an energy gold rush.
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What happens when the B.C. Hydro power-purchase agreements with independent producers expire?

John Calvert, Elisha Moreno, Michael Sather, and Randy Hawes offer their opinions.
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Stoking B.C.'s abortion rate

Part of the reason this province’s abortion rate is so high is that parents are under tremendous financial pressure, said the Vancouver-based leader of Canada’s national pro-choice lobby coalition. About 15,000 B.C. women per year have an abortion, according to Statistics Canada.
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If Parliament focuses on abortion again because of Bill C-484, what should that debate be about?

Cristina Alarcon, Ujjal Dosanjh, Stephanie Gray, and Joyce Arthur give their opinions.

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