Community media money – where is it going?
INDEPENDENT MEDIA by Steve Anderson Prior to the deregulation of community TV in 1997, all Canadian communities with 2,000 cable subscribers or more enjoyed access … Read more
Month: February 2010
Building core strength
NUTRISPEAK by Vesanto Melina This month, the proximity of Olympic athletes draws our attention to the pleasure and satisfaction connected with keeping ourselves fit. Vancouver … Read more
The Zero Mile Diet
ON THE GARDEN PATH by Carolyn Herriot "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, … Read more
Mastering the basics
UNIVERSE WITHIN by Gwen Randall-Young I have always felt there is a glaring omission in the way we have been educated and the way children are … Read more
Performances redeem Tolstoy’s story
FILMS WORTH WATCHING by Robert Alstead As costume dramas go, The Last Station is perfunctory and sags in the middle. Set in the last year of Leo … Read more
Pesticide use should end
EARTHFUTURE by Guy Dauncey Over the millions of years of Nature’s evolution, every kind of insect and bacterium has evolved, seeking its niche in the … Read more
Earth needs an Avatar
SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki with Faisal Moola For more than 40 years, I’ve been involved in making television programs to educate people about science … Read more
This month’s cover: A contextual reframing and some meandering thoughts on Avatar and the Internet
by Geoff Olson The defunct humour magazine National Lampoon once ran a regular feature called “Professor Kennelworth Explains the Joke.” The professor dissected groaners about farmers’ … Read more
Water Beneath Our Feet
Mapping the Spirit of the False Creek Watershed presented by the False Creek Watershed Society Are you interested in the history of False Creek? Would … Read more
Grey whales & friends – a Pacific Rim celebration
by Jim Shinkewski and Marla Barker Who doesn’t love whales? Who doesn’t at least like marine mammals in some way? Given the popularity of … Read more