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Nk'Mip Centre Shimmers in Desert

Award-winning Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre, designed by Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden. Photo by Nic Lehoux.

Osoyoos Band offers new way to imagine 'breathtaking' buildings amidst the financial crash.

By Adele Weder

Far, far away from the turbulent urban centres, a First Nations cultural project is offering an architectural antidote for these times.
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DOBBIN: Left Coalition Badly Needed Harper's agenda must be stopped by Liberals, NDP and Bloc.
For Love or Money? Given a devil's choice about your child's happiness, what would you choose?
YouTube Shines Light on Dirty Politics How video vigilantes are outing whisper campaigns in US presidential campaign.
  • News, Tuesday, 21 Oct 2008

    Gary Lunn's Shadowy Grassroots

    Mysterious groups helped with minister's re-election bid.

    By Andrew MacLeod
  • Views, Tuesday, 21 Oct 2008

    Settle in for Long Harper Reign

    Seat tallies tell the tale. Tories won bigger than pundits said.

    By Will McMartin
  • News, Monday, 20 Oct 2008

    Is Carbon Tax Political Poison?

    Dion and Campbell might have just sold it badly: pollster.

    By Tom Barrett
  • Views, Monday, 20 Oct 2008

    1932, 1968, 1980... 2008

    The huge, historic shift that Obama's impending victory will signify.

    By Michael Fellman
  • Views, Monday, 20 Oct 2008

    Tried the Slimehead? Delicious!

    How renaming fish is hastening their extinction.

    By Jennifer Jacquet
  • Views, Monday, 20 Oct 2008

    Harper Win Good for Campbell?

    Provincial contest will be night and day different.

    By Rafe Mair
  • Life, Saturday, 18 Oct 2008

    From Field to Flour

    Podcast:'Deconstructing Dinner' checks up on a B.C. community grain project and meets the players in this local food system.

    By Jon Steinman
  • Entertainment, Friday, 17 Oct 2008

    The Funhouse Mirrors of Political Films

    Blurring the line between telling the truth and just telling tales.

    By Dorothy Woodend
  • Views, Friday, 17 Oct 2008

    Refuge from a Storm of Abuse

    Businesses offer 'safe harbour' from gay bashing and other street harassment.

    By Lindsay Marsh
  • Life, Friday, 17 Oct 2008

    Risk Written on Their Faces

    Harvard researchers: Blame stock market meltdown on too much testosterone.

    By Shannon Rupp
  • News, Thursday, 16 Oct 2008

    Falling through the Cracks

    Homeless man dies in Stanley Park one week from getting housing. A special report.

    By Sean Condon
  • Views, Thursday, 16 Oct 2008

    McMartin's Very Own Winners and Losers

    The election victors, the vanquished and why Harper is grinning.

    By Will McMartin
  • Music Picks, Thursday, 16 Oct 2008

    Dengue Fever

    Good, exotic, psychedelic pop, with Cambodian spices.

    By Adrian Mack
  • Contests, Wednesday, 15 Oct 2008

    Win Portobello West Prizes and Passes

    Enter our draw for locally made crafts and jewellery

  • Mediacheck, Wednesday, 15 Oct 2008

    Spears as Whore, Jolie as Saint

    Why teen mothers keep getting shocked up by the media.

    By Vanessa Richmond
  • Views, Wednesday, 15 Oct 2008

    Election's Big Winners and Losers

    These get our votes. Please add your own.

    By David Beers and Monte Paulsen
  • Views, Tuesday, 14 Oct 2008

    What Did Voters Say Today?

    Catch our fresh election night analysis on The Hook.

    By David Beers and Monte Paulsen
  • Views, Tuesday, 14 Oct 2008

    Is Canada Turning Conservative?

    What polling shows on a range of issues.

    By Gabriela Perdomo and Roxana Albusel
  • Views, Tuesday, 14 Oct 2008

    The Higginbotham Curse

    In which McMartin braves his editor's wrath to float a humble election theory.

    By Will McMartin
  • Video, Tuesday, 14 Oct 2008

    Swaying the Vote with YouTube

    From 'You have a choice,' and 'Sweater Fan' to 'Harper Girl.'

    By Alexandra Samur
  • Views, Monday, 13 Oct 2008

    When Wall Street 'Flu' Hits BC

    Where will Campbell point the finger this time?

    By Rafe Mair
  • Life, Saturday, 11 Oct 2008

    Biotech Nation

    Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' explores the myths and realities of high-tech farming.

    By Jon Steinman
  • News, Friday, 10 Oct 2008

    Voting for Lights and Heat

    High energy costs, tightening family budgets. Who's making the election connection?

    By Colleen Kimmett
  • Views, Friday, 10 Oct 2008

    Tyee's Strategic Voters' Guide

    A riding-by-riding look at pros and cons of voting 'anyone but Harper' in BC. (Not as simple as it seems.)

    By Andrew MacLeod
  • Views, Friday, 10 Oct 2008

    Canadians, Let's Get Happy

    Next PM needs to reinvent how our country measures success.

    By Chris Wood
  • Views, Friday, 10 Oct 2008

    Charting the Votes in Nanaimo-Cowichan

    Is this the making of an NDP stronghold?

    By Will McMartin
  • Mediacheck, Thursday, 9 Oct 2008

    Strategic Voting 2.0

    How the web has changed our ability to target, and swap, votes.

    By David Thompson
  • Tyee News

  • Mayoral debate: On Oct. 22, The Tyee and 24 Hours co-sponsor a Vancouver mayoral candidates debate on homelessness, affordable housing and mental health/addiction treatment issues. Free to the public. See The Hook for more info.


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