Books
The new era of Shopping for Votes
November 24, 2014Are you a Tim Hortons voter or a Starbucks voter? Are you a Dougie, or a Jane, or a Zoe? Whether you have the answer or not, the nation’s major political parties are hard at work trying to place you into one of their micro-targeted categories of the voting market. Susan Delacourt is a senior political writer at the Toronto Star, and in Shopping for Votes she outlines the way marketing and consumerism has pervaded Canada’s political landscape. When did ‘citizens’ get reduced to ‘taxpayers,’ and when did voting start to be seen as less of a civic duty and…
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A day at the Art/Book fair
October 29, 2014During the month of September, local artist-run culture gets into the full swing of things with an annual swarm of show openings throughout the Vancouver area. One centre, however, is creating a new tradition in the first week of October.…
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Vancouver Confidential tells the untold stories of the city’s seedy underbelly
October 13, 2014Vancouver’s civic history is ripe with stories of seedy back alley deals, corrupt officials, murders, gangsters, and gambling; a recent wave of books has mined archives and libraries, used bookstores, antique sales, and auctions to present this city’s dark side.…
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Cypulchre is a dystopian tale of our technological future
October 13, 2014Cypulchre follows Paul Sheffield, a former scientist in an alternate reality, who was involved with a revolutionary cyberspace called the Cloud. This invention allows individual minds to link to a central network of shared information, where users can essentially download…
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SFU connections at Word Vancouver
September 29, 2014Take a break from essays, readings, and assignments this weekend and enjoy some non-academic literary entertainment at Word Vancouver. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the annual book and magazine festival is the biggest in Western Canada and takes place September 24…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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