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Q and A with Elizabeth May
The Green Party of Canada leader shares her views on economics and environment
2007-12-06
Gauntlet: What is the Green Party's stance on economics?
Elizabeth May: Our approach is that economics can be green and be a healthy economic base for the country. We tend to have a lot of policy wonks in the party who are very committed to ecological fiscal reform. Moving taxes off of the things that we want in society, like income and jobs and moving it to things that we don't want like pollution and greenhouse gases. Our economics approach is very solid, very pragmatic, and wants to see our economic activity working to be of service to larger community and not the other way around. There is an imbalance in current society, we have too much focus on 'does it address corporate profits?' instead of thinking 'what does it do for the common good?' Our policies are strong economically, but not [in support of] an economy in isolation from the rest of the concerns that Canadians have about social justice, livable cities, responding to environmental threats and so on.
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Editorial: Homeless population needs help now
2007-12-06
Editorial - The prediction of the coldest winter in fifteen years will affect all of us, but for the homeless population of Calgary it could be catastrophic.
Homeless Awareness Calgary does a count of the city's homeless every two years. The last count was done in fall 2006 and totaled 3,400. Because of both the lapse in time and the imperfections of the survey, the current total is thought to be closer to 4,000, and city shelters are currently turning away patrons.
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 Dinos basketballers totally dominate
2007-12-06
A mumps-free University of Calgary Dinos men's basketball squad swept their series against the University of Saskatchewan Huskies this weekend. The pair of victories improves the Dinos winning streak to six games and gives them a four-point lead over the University of Alberta Golden Bears for top spot in the Central division of Canada West.
It took a time-out pep talk from head coach Dan Vanhooren to get the team out of their early game rut. After refocusing, the team regained momentum.
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 Local filmmaker's Walk to remember
2007-12-06
Many people dream of the glitz and glamour of filmmaking, never realizing that the road to Hollywood is long and treacherous. Too many aspiring filmmakers to count have abandoned their dreams amidst the murkiness of that path, but Robert Cuffley isn't one of them. The Calgary-based writer/director turned a youthful fascination with film into a career making movies, including the upcoming Walk All Over Me. Cuffley's path to becoming a filmmaker began in Grade 8.
"I took some of my brother's toys and lit them on fire and shot it on Super 8," recalls Cuffley. "That was the first thing I ever did. Then I went to the film program at SAIT and started doing stuff on weekends--short films--and then after I graduated I started shooting commercials and music videos and kind of went on from there."
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 State of mind, part II
2007-12-06
In early November, a couple weeks after my initial excursions downtown, and tour of the Drop-In Centre, I went back with Gauntlet news editor Katy Anderson. We parked my car in front of the YMCA and walked the two blocks to the front entrance of the DIC. Against the gate separating the DIC's driveway from the street, a man and a woman were making out. A little ways beyond them, sitting on the curb of the driveway opposite us, was a young man wearing ragged clothes and with a cigarette tucked into his hat.
Anderson went up to the man and greeted him. After only a few moments, he agreed to an interview. During the discussion Rayrey Babcock, a 21-year old who has been living on the streets for seven years, said that, in his opinion, there was not in fact a large prevalence of mental illness amongst the homeless (except in the elderly), and that a lot of the substance abuse stemmed from the simple fact that people on the streets couldn't find anything to do. They did drugs because they were bored.
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Facebook makes the naughty list after ruining Christmas
2007-12-06
Column - Over 50,000 people protested Facebook's invasion of privacy last month following the release of the Beacon advertising platform. The controversial program tracks the browsing and purchase history of Facebook users on over 40 websites, and publishes them in the user's news feed. Many users of the social networking site were unaware the advertising program even existed, and were angered when Christmas purchases were published for their friends and family to see without approval.
Facebook has been condemned by critics for its invasion of privacy several times before, but the announcement to make changes to Beacon marks the first concession Facebook has made in response to these protests. Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote an apology yesterday for the way the site handled the flawed advertising program, following a press release detailing changes to Beacon on Nov., 30.
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