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The City of Vancouver passed a motion this month demanding that Kinder Morgan pipeline company carry full liability to cover the costs of an oil spill in our Vancouver Harbour. The request is just common sense but demonstrated very uncommon courage in … Read more

There’s just over a month left until Moses Znaimer’s 13th Annual ideacity Conference. As each week passes, we’re drawing back the curtain and giving you a peek into the roster of luminous speakers taking the stage at our Festival of … Read more

Last week, we delivered a hint of what’s to come at Moses Znaimer’s 13th Annual ideacity Conference.  In ideacity’s Bar Mitzvah year, the gathering of the world’s top thinkers and doers truly is coming of age. ideacity 2012 features a can’t-miss speaker lineup, … Read more

From the Globe & Mail’s Five Shows Worth Watching Tonight: Pacing the Cage at 10pm on VisionTV, Friday May 4th. One of the greatest Canadian artists who stayed home, singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn is profiled in this new documentary. Directed by … Read more

Conrad Black, the fallen media titan convicted for fraud and obstruction of justice, was released from a Florida prison Friday and reportedly taken straight to the airport by U.S. immigration officials. He was picked up at the low-security Federal Correctional … Read more

  The End of Oil, the End of the Environment, and the End of the World (well, at least the End of Money).  Religion without God.  Sex on six legs.  How to have 52 jobs in one year.  The dawn … Read more

Gordon Lightfoot. Bob Dylan. Bob Marley, Neil Young. They’ve all had breakthrough nights at Massey Hall. So have Glenn Gould and Charlie Parker, the great jazz saxophonist. But Nikki Yanofsky has a way to top them all when she walks … Read more

Supporters of a Canadian who said he was mistakenly charged with murder, tortured and held in solitary confinement for close to three years in a Saudi Arabian jail expressed sadness and a hope for “justice” after reports surfaced of his … Read more

Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk says SpaceX is developing a plan for trips to Mars that will eventually cost just $500,000 per seat. Musk founded SpaceX 10 years ago and interplanetary travel has always been one of his goals for the … Read more

Stones were once canvas for stories. We marked milestones and journeys on rocks, painting vivid images of big hunts, mighty warriors and spiritual quests. Tens of thousands of tales have been told in bright shades of ochre – stories that, … Read more