During World War II, Britains finance minister recommended to Winston Churchill that they cut arts funding in order to better support the war effort. Churchills reply was, “Then what…
GrowLab has announced it’s newest crop of companies and there are some great additions this year. The Sun writes: The companies all focus on the fast growing digital economy,…
I Bet Banksy Would Hate The Show Mad Men.
A good piece in The Observer today on the art scene in Vancouver. Why is nobody else in the city writing about this? They begin with this ominous opening:…
Sean Sherwood writes about the emotional roller coaster that comes with running a startup. He begins: Startups are hard, but not because entrepreneurs don’t have an appetite for hard work. …
Another sad day in music today: Lloyd Brevett, the upright bass player and founding member of the seminal Jamaican ska group The Skatalites, died this morning at Andrews Memorial…
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Edvard Munch’s famous painting recently sold for a record $120 million. Here is Munch describing how the image was born. “I was walking down the road with two friends when…
Opening Friday, May 11, 8pm. The month-long launch of this new edition of Path is accompanied by evening showings of Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett’s Space Video in the…
Proponents of the tar sands want you to see this graph: So for us British Columbians there’s a giant $28 billion dollar pot of gold at the end of the…
Famed Canadian environmentalist, Tzeporah Berman wrote an important piece in today’s Globe and Mail. In it she says: I spent the past couple of years working internationally and came…
EthicalOil, a shadowy conservative cheerleader for the Canadian oil industry, has just tried to silence the Suzuki Foundation. The answer came a week later, when EthicalOil.org, with strong ties…
The Vancouver Sun reported that a BC gangster was shot and killed in Mexico. The following was posted in the comments of the Sun piece.
The Vancouver Observer reports: U.S. libertarian oil billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch have poured at least half a million dollars into The Fraser Institute over the last few…
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"The Crowd Sourcerer", 2006
