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The book of Heather

03/05/2015 by the editor

By Rod Mickleburgh Like many Vancouverites, I presume, I have a love-hate relationship with the big box Chapters bookstore downtown at Robson and Howe. Stocking the main floor with almost everything BUT books, bringing in the flag-waving American Girl franchise to what is supposed to be a Canadian bookstore, and, worst of all, the shameful […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, British Columbia, business, Canada, Chapters, cities, Heather Reisman, Indigo, toys, Vancouver

Vancouver’s dark flaw

09/23/2014 by the editor

By Jim Henshaw I spent a couple of days in Vancouver this week and on a sunny day, it’s probably the most beautiful city in the world. It ain’t half bad looking on a rainy day either. And as the locals say, “Wait twenty minutes” and you can observe it either way. It’s hard not […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: books, British Columbia, cities, crime, drugs, police, poverty, urban life, Vancouver

A Tale of Three Kitties: Cats allow cafés to come to Canada

06/16/2014 by backofthebook.ca

A BoB Short Cats and cappuccinos may not seem the likeliest combination, but the idea has stirred the pot for several entrepreneurs across the country. The concept is simple: Come in for a coffee and play with a few cats while you’re there. The first “cat café” opened its doors in Taipei, Taiwan in 1998. They’ve […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: animals, Canada, cities, Japan, restaurants, Taiwan, urban life

The Video: Is this Canada’s biggest pothole?

06/01/2014 by the editor

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: Canada, cities, Newfoundland, St. John's, urban life

Who was that masked pothole filler?

05/14/2014 by the editor

A Bob Short New York has Spiderman, Gotham has Batman, and now Saint John, NB has its own face of vigilante justice. Meet Mike Defazio, 60-year old auto body shop owner, one-man road repair crew, and local hero. Defazio’s origin story is simple — driving home from work on Saint John’s Broadway Avenue, his vehicle […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, cities, Saint John, urban life

Bad first compression

04/26/2014 by the editor

A BoB Short When residents of a Northwest Saskatoon neighbourhood heard their street was slated to receive its own piece of public art, many were ecstatic. But when the big reveal finally came last November, the piece was greeted with overwhelming confusion. The result of the city’s $4300 investment, titled Found Compressions One and Two, […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, cities, public art, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, urban life, Vancouver, visual arts

Seeds and the City

04/17/2014 by the editor

By TJ Dawe Are we headed toward a civilization-wide collapse? Maybe. The bees are dying. A sperm whale with a belly full of plastic washed up on a Dutch island. People share maps on the internet showing Fukushima radiation allegedly making its way around the Pacific in terrifying red streaks. The climate’s in a tizzy […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: agriculture, Canada, cities, Detroit, farming, gardening, Toronto

Wrong Way

12/30/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside You know how you sometimes wonder how we might reorganize society if we were starting over again today from scratch? Imagine how public meetings to discuss it would go. Anyone recommending any variation on tinkle down economics or massive handouts to the rich as a solution to poverty would get laughed out of the room. […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: British Columbia, cars, cities, humans

Crowdsourcing hockey

11/02/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By TJ Dawe Hockey season is upon us. The tellers in my bank wear game day jerseys. People refer to their team in the possessive — “we” — despite the fact that the only contribution individuals make is to buy sufficient gear and tickets to enrich the owners sufficiently to pay the salaries of better […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: business, cities, community, hockey, sports

Wake Up Call

06/07/2009 by backofthebook.ca

Jodi A. Shaw “I think, if luck were real,” David Arthur Johnston says, “that I’m one of the luckiest people on the planet. To have a grand scope in my head, that’s weird, but makes me feel like a superhero most of the time. “A lot of people love me, though most of them think […]

Filed Under: Features, Wake Up Call Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, cities, homelessness, law, Victoria

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

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The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

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My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

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The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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