Vancouver city council voted almost unanimously in favour of creating a gay advisory committee, Feb 17. Only Suzanne Anton, the Non-Partisan Association’s (NPA) lone voice on council since last November’s civic election, opposed the mo...
Despite opposition from some Denman St residents and the Vancouver Police Department, the Odyssey’s owner remains optimistic that city council will approve his request to transfer the popular gay club’s liquor license to Denman when it comes...
 Just days after the Abbotsford School Board decided to allow its secondary schools to offer Social Justice 12 this fall, educators, students and parents gathered to debate the tension between sexuality and religion, and the place of parental consent in education, at a social justice conferenc...
It’s hard to miss Reginald Vermue â€" he’s just so damn white. So pale, in fact, that he was recently cast as a victim in a vampire movie. He’s so blond that his curly hair is practically luminescent in the sun. The overall impression he leaves is so memorable, the 33-year-old...
Xtra.ca videographer Michael Pihach looked in on a Toronto People with AIDS Foundation fundraiser at Gladaman’s Den on Feb 15. In it Toronto artist George MacIntyre donated his painting of the historic St Charles Tavern to the 519 Community Centre. Pihach caught up with some of those who reme...
Canada is a censorious country. Our nanny state bans most hate speech (not the religious-based homophobic kind), stops erotica at the border and may soon allow police to monitor all communication on the internet â€" all to "protect" Canadi...
Buried within the budget implementation act were provisions that will change the way that pay equity is dealt with in the federal public service. With the bill now passed by the Commons, those changes are almost certainly due to become law by spring.
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