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Housing movement intensifies
Andrew Bates, Canadian University Press Western Bureau Chief, reports on protests amid the Olympics, their sense of community, democratic spirit, and national implications

VANCOUVER (CUP) — This past month, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has become very visible as the heart of the city’s dynamic and divisive housing movement. While featured in the 2010 Convergence protests that brought together a wide range of social groups,...

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“The fracas about sexuality is a red herring”
Interview with GayUgandan

GayUgandan is a pseudonymous queer blogger (gayuganda.blogspot.com) in Kampala, Uganda, who has been writing about the Anti-Homosexuality Bill currently under review in the Ugandan parliament. (See “Gay genocide,” Features, March 4). The Daily’s William M. Burton interviewed him via email.

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Gay genocide
The Daily’s William M. Burton gives the low-down on Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill

Under the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, homosexuality would be completely outlawed, queer rights groups banned, and failure to report a homosexual known to you within 24 hours of discovery would carry a fine as well as a prison sentence of up to...

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A piece // body peace

A piece // body peace by Sally Lin

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Policing poverty
Filmmaker and ex-squeegee kid portrays the criminalization of Montreal’s homeless

Eric Denis, better known as Roach, used to earn a living cleaning windshields. Now he’s in the process of creating the documentary Les Tickets, which will reveal many of the realities of Montreal’s streets and the effects of harsh punishments...

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A threat to choice
The author explores the larger implications of the abortion debate on campus

Until 1969, the leading cause of hospitalization and death for Canadian women under the age of 30 was botched self-induced abortions, and today, the lack of safe, legal abortions continues to claim lives. According to the World Health Organization, 70,000...

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Meat in the middle
Discussing the ethics of renouncing vegetarianism and dietary extremism

When she was in high school, Olivia’s family got into urban farming. Though her city has laws prohibiting roosters, you can buy chickens online and have them sent to your doorstep. They send more than you order because you can’t...

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Frightening the life out of the climate change movement
Laura Anderson investigates why North Americans ignore science at their own peril

December’s United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen brought together delegates representing 110 nations with only one issue on the agenda: cutting carbon emissions. With ever-mounting scientific evidence proving the severity of global warming and that humans are causing...

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Discrimination of Olympic proportions
Whitney Mallett investigates the Games’ effects on Vancouver’s sex workers

Canada’s laws on sex work put women in danger. While sex work is legal, communicating in public to solicit sex, running a bawdy house, and living off an income procured by sex work are all criminal offenses. This constitutional catch-22...

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Trapped in the sprawl
Justin Scherer revisits the big-box stores and clogged highways of southern Ontario’s suburbs

“Everything he had known had become permeated by a hidden death, a solvent of unreality, a sense of belonging to the past. It had all become a makeshift, like worn-out clothing that no longer fitted…this slow outgrowing of a beloved...

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The 2009 Art Supplement

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The horrors of North Korean prisons
Beth Hong and Matthias Heilke urge internal measures to reform the chilling reality

Last spring, North Korea sentenced two American journalists to 12 years of hard labour in its prisons. After a visit from Bill Clinton, they were returned to the United States. Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the journalists, are now free....

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When a man loves an object
Nicholas Cameron learns a thing or two about Objectùm-Sexuality

Had I known about Objectùm-Sexuality when I was nine years old, I’m more or less positive I would have married my N64. Objectùm-Sexualists profess to have innate, emotional, and physical attractions to inanimate objects which they believe are capable of...

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All your digital labour are belong to us
The Daily’s Whitney Mallett explores the world of gold-farming: professional gaming and virtual trading

Gold-farming is a type of digital labour. Put simply, in massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, players will pay real-world currency for characters, weapons, and gold coins, or to reach higher levels. Professional gamers, or...

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Lab rats don't get enough respect
Test subjects save lives, deserve humane treatment

The majority of the lip balms and shampoos in pharmacies boast the words “Not Tested on Animals.” But apart from the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 implemented for humane treatment of lab animals, PETA has thus far left the testing...