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A dystopia whose time has come
Vancouver Zeitgeist
book profiles
Just a small and random selection here.
East, West—or neither
Mingheria’s Turks and Greeks adopt artificial nationalism.
Those of Cyprus seem destined for multiculturalism.
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They is there, too
Rediscovered stories depict the revenge of
the inadequate in 1970s England. Read more…
Rare earth muddle
An ignorant British script set in Bolivia
shows up Canadian writers. Read more…
Polluted purgatory
Lost souls wander the dead planet of
Joy Williams’ climate change fantasy. Read more…
Journalism of the plague years
Alex Berenson’s Pandemia chronicles Covid machinations,
especially media collaboration. Read more…
Titania McGrath’s
crusade to Canada
Wokery’s most outspoken exponent extends
her disapproval to our this country. Read more…
Could Washington royalty
lead a palace coup?
Robert Kennedy Jr. defends health and
(some semblance of) liberty against
pandemic profit and power. Read more…
Identity politics:
On the edge of self-destructing chaos?
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The “Vancouver model”
How Canada’s gateway to the Orient became
the CCP’s entry to the West. Read more…
“A dystopia
whose time has come”
2021 Stephen Leacock award celebrates the courage
and humility of Canadian journalism. Read more…
Who’s appropriating whom?
Identity theft takes on new meaning in the
competition for special status. Read more…
Extremism gone mainstream
Andy Ngo exposes the American fanaticism
that politicized Canadians condone or even imitate.
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Capital crimes
Money for Nothing re-examines
the South Sea bubble, warning of even
worse financial chaos to come. Read more…
Not so nigh after all
Michael Shellenberger’s Apocalypse Never separates
climate science from climactic incitement. Read more…
Jean Raspail, 1925-2020
Vilified but—even worse—vindicated, he saw
it coming. Read Srdja Trifkovic’s tribute…
Decline and crash
Will the pandemic hasten
Lionel Shriver’s economic apocalypse?
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Potosí’s legacy
A renowned but notorious mountain of silver
looms over Bolivia’s turmoil. Read more…
The end is still nigh
So James Rickards found time to write
another doomsday survival guide. Read more…
First they came for
the holocaust revisionists
A publishing company tries to suppress
its own publication. Read more…
Just off Broadway
The Cellar co-op left Vancouver jazz
a lasting legacy. Read more…
“The money-conjurers”
Only a radical reset can solve the central bank
problem, says Nomi Prins. Read more…
“The Asian century”
East has surpassed West, whether the West
knows it or not, says Peter Frankopan. Read more…
DRC on the brink
The Congo’s increasing instability heightens
critical minerals concern. Read more…
Fraser River rush revisited
New research shows how gold fever brought
American warfare north of the border.
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A matter of overconfidence
Two B.C. journalists write a book.
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Canada in fucking decay?
That huge understatement notwithstanding,
Ricardo Duchesne writes the country’s “first scholarly”
critique of immigration. Read more…
Europe R.I.P.
What does the old continent’s demise
mean to the New World? Read more…
When B.C.’s NDP wanted coal mining—
and to run the business itself
An industry insider reveals 1970s New Democrat
tactics of resource nationalism. Read more…
Quixote amid the terror
Vicious as it is, Boualem Sansal’s dystopia offers
a glimmer of hope not seen in Orwell’s work.
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As willed by Allah
and the Western elites
France surrenders to Islam, but not through war or terrorism,
in Michel Houellebecq’s novel Submission. Read more…
Misunderstood, still
A Nobel for literature leaves Bob Dylan’s
greatest gift unrecognized. Read more…
Hey Curt, whaddya think of Vancouver?
Local legend Curt Lang made the city his base for a creatively
unconventional life. But what did he think of the place?
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When a wordsmith encountered
the Woodsmen of the West
This compelling account fell into obscurity,
probably because it took place in Canada.
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“The Rare Metal Age”
Our high-tech society doesn’t understand
its dependency on critical elements. Read more…