DOXA 2012: Film Previews

Submitted by RA on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 14:49

Toronto has Hot Docs. Here in Vancouver our annual showcase of new documentary is DOXA. This year brings a line-up of 72 screenings of more than 100 films across five different venues.

Canada Rail Renaissance

Submitted by RA on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 23:49

Trains are making a come-back in Canada according to a lead article in the National Post.

English Bay & Burrard Inlet: Imagine an Oil Spill Here

Submitted by RA on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 11:02

I took these two snaps of the sun setting over English Bay and Burrard inlet last night around 8.25pm while biking across the Burrard Bridge.

Vancouver Mayor Will Fight Pipeline

Submitted by RA on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 14:37

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has rightly pointed out that there is way too much risk to Vancouver's local economy and the environment from the Kinder Morgan Pipeline Proposal.

Video: When A Vancouver Oil Pipeline Bursts

Submitted by RA on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 13:48

Kinder Morgan yesterday announced that it wants to almost triple the amount of oil it can pump to Metro Vancouver each day. The existing Trans Mountain oil pipeline would be twinned so that it can carry 850,000 barrels of oil per day, compared to the 300,000 barrels per day it pumps now.

Cost: $5 billion.

Construction would start in 2016.

With a bigger maritime terminal in Burnaby and many more tankers off the coast, are we going to see more spills like the one in Burnaby in 2007 that was documented in these videos?

Movie Monthly: In the Beginning

Submitted by RA on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 23:26

Given that recent polls suggest that around 40% of Americans believe that God created human beings in their present form 10,000 years ago, Journey of the Universe might be considered quite a radical documentary for some. This story of the universe, which has screened on PBS, starts around 14 billion years ago with the big bang, and it doesn't talk explicitly about God.

Earth Hour Doodles at Science World in Vancouver

Submitted by RA on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 22:09

Earth Hour just rolled through Vancouver. Millions of people around the world have been taking part, turning off their lights at 8.30pm local time for an hour, as a simple way of calling for stronger action on climate change.

Greenest City

Vancouver City Council has a plan to make Vancouver the "Greenest City" by 2020.

For more information see the Greenest City Pages on Vancouver City Council's web site.

This site, 2020vancouver, is independent of that.

Dumb Place for A Drive-Through

Submitted by RA on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 09:59

This is the least pleasant part of my morning bike ride to the daycare centre.

Believe it or not this is an official bike route, at the intersection of Kaslo and E. Hastings. The photos were taken this morning at around 9am.

When traffic backs up onto the road like this, it becomes tricky to negotiate with the kiddie trailer. Very easy to get boxed in with parked cars to one side, oncoming cars the other side, and more cars streaming off Hastings behind you.

Movie Monthly: Putting the Love Into Revolution

Submitted by RA on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 15:17

It will be six months on 17 March since the beginning of Occupy Wall Street and the subsequent cascade of grass roots occupations that followed across the Western world. As the days get warmer, lighter, and more warmth and colour subsumes our cities, Spring – in all senses of the word - is once again in the air.

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