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Canadian mining and violence
March 29, 2019
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“It wasn’t war, it was butchery”
January 2, 2016
I can’t get this article out of my mind, more than all the ones I read on terrorism and violence in 2015. I’m not sure why. It’s by Vijay Prashad, educated in the US and working out of New Delhi.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller by Robert Altman: shot in Vancouver, soundtrack by Leonard Cohen
December 3, 2011
McCabe & Mrs. Miller, released in 1971, was one of Robert Altman’s earliest feature films (after M*A*S*H*, That Cold Day in the Park, and Brewster McCloud).
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“We are all Canucks” until we riot, apparently. Then it’s the work of a “handful.”
June 16, 2011
“Hockey’s over-the-top fandom (and the same could be said for the Olympics) seems a frantic expression of what the post-modern metropolis and its high-rise ghettos lack and even deliberately negate — a human-scale community in which individuals feel purposeful and acknowledged.”
“In the absence of any shared collective progressive principles, the BC elite longed for a new solidarity forged from of this “fighting collectivity” of Canucks fans.
