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Grizzly Bear tears your heart to shreds
Grizzly Bear Commodore Ballroom May 26 2009 Try to imagine the cool hipness of the early Walkmen sound, combined with the ethereal sounds and lyrical verbosity of Broken Social Scene, finishing with the power to hypnotize. The Brooklyn-based quartet consisting of...
Feds overhaul credit card regulations
Canadian consumers will have a minimum 21-day, interest-free grace period on all credit card purchases after the federal government introduced new legislation on Thursday. This applies when a customer pays the outstanding balance in full. The new regulations also...
Buying Sex not a sport: Sex work activists
For Metro Vancouver Buying sex is not a sport, says a group of activists campaigning to get Ottawa to change the country’s sex laws before the 2010 Olympics, to keep more women from being lured into prostitution. Michelle Miller, executive director of Resist...
Apartment fire leaves 70 homeless
For Metro Vancouver A fire at an East Vancouver apartment building that left one person in serious condition and 70 others homeless was likely started by a cigarette, according to firefighters. “It started as a mattress fire,” Capt. Gabe Roder said. “It was...
Caseloads, stress bury social workers: Study
Almost 60% in B.C. say they can’t give clients due attention For Metro Vancouver Nearly two-thirds — 60 per cent — of front-line social workers in British Columbia said they “rarely” or “never” give adequate attention to children and families due to unmanageable...
Ill women users stigmatized: Report
For Metro Vancouver Scoring street drugs is often the easier alternative to pain relief than acquiring prescription medication, according to a report based on a group of female users in the Downtown Eastside. A two-year study conducted by the Vancouver Area Network of...
ozric tentacles
The YumYum Tree Psychedelia meets full-formed jazz in Ozric's 30th album, meeting new peaks of musical eccentricity. Since their formation in 1984, the English quartet has made a considerable impact in the tradition cottage industry-styled electronica, having made...
City Art Gallery goes to pot
Thousands light up joints to celebrate cannabis culture at 4/20 event for Metro Vancouver A crowd of more than 5,000 people lit joints and got high outside the Vancouver Art Gallery yesterday to celebrate 4/20, the annual cannabis culture gala. The impenetrable mass...
On a mission to Mars
For Metro Vancouver A massive crater on an uninhabited island in the Arctic is a site worthy of a science-fiction movie. With a vegetable greenhouse and an Internet network, it is a futuristic vision for how humans could survive an expedition on Mars within this...