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From the NYT: “In some ways a suburban city can be understood as an intolerant city.” If that loaded quotation from the Calgary-based architect Marc Boutin doesn’t tell you exactly where “Radiant City” stands on the issue of suburban sprawl, the filmmakers have plenty more just like it. Blending documentary elements and some dramatic material [...]
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From the BBC: Indonesian troops deliberately killed five Australian-based journalists during the invasion of East Timor in 1975, an Australian inquiry has heard. A senior lawyer has told a coroner in Sydney that eyewitness evidence has proved the men were murdered after they had tried to surrender. The Australian and Indonesian governments have always insisted [...]
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From the BBC: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has denounced what he called fresh plots to destabilise his government, after he closed an opposition TV channel. He urged supporters to be on alert for a coup attempt and threatened a second TV network, Globovision. Thousands of people across the country protested for a second day after [...]
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Congratulations to Syria's President Bashar Assad, who won another seven-year mandate by capturing 97 per cent of the vote! Not only that, voter turnout is estimated at 95 per cent! Still, Assad isn't as popular as the late, lamented Saddam Hussein, who captured 99.6 per cent of the vote in Iraq's last pre-colonial election in October [...]
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From globeandmail.com: Sam the Record Man, a Yonge Street staple since 1961 and once Canada's top music retailer, will be closing its doors for good next month. Citing ubiquitous music downloads, Jason and Bobby Sniderman, the sons of Sam Sniderman and present owners of the flagship Toronto store, said rarely does a day go by [...]
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