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I Wish I Was American... and other fine tunes to listen to while casting your ballots.

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Vancouver's municipalities have the collective buying power of a small province. Is it time cities keep track of the people who want a piece of the pie?

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  • Media

    • Global Post
      This online operation pays foreign correspondents a modest, but livable monthly wage to file weekly dispatches. Main content is free; the money comes from an extra subscription fee for exclusive reports. Interested to see if it will prove successful.
    • Globe and Mail B.C.
      The Globe's B.C. bureau consistently breaks news and produces explanatory journalism with a small local staff.
    • 24 hours Vancouver
      Video news and features from those free daily guys.
  • Local blogs

    • State of Vancouver
      Frances Bula's rather excellent blog on Vancouver's goings-on
    • 12th and Cambie
      Courier reporter Mike Howell's no less astounding city hall blog.
    • The Hook
      The Tyee's new superblog
    • Pricetags
      Former city councillor turned urban planner Gordon Price writes this fascinating blog on planning and transportation.
    • Chinese in Vancouver
      Susanna Ng, an editor at Ming Pao newspaper, keeps an excellent blog discussing the city's Chinese community
    • Public Eye Online
      That Holman guy.
  • Docs

    • Public Radio International: the World
      Download radio documentaries, programs and podcasts
    • BBC Radio Docs
      Download radio documentaries from the BBC's world service
    • Frontline Docs
      Watch entire documentaries from PBS's Frontline and Frontline World.
    • World Vision Report
      A great weekly podcast featuring international dispatches. No preaching found here.
    • Best Free Documentaries blog
      Free docs!
  • Other?

    • CBC Radio 3 Magazine
      Amidst the cautious landscape of established media's internet offerings, music/culture hybrid Radio 3's magazine was ahead of its time. Just try and figure out how to navigate it. It was shamefully abandoned in 2005 and replaced by... a blog.
    • Maisonneuve
      This country produces a precious few interesting things to read. This is one of them. Finances forced this excellent Montreal mag to cut down its frequency, but it still publishes as a quarterly and features exclusive online content on its website.
    • Rafal Gerszak
      Photographer Rafal Gerszak, a former colleague, produces some of the most vivid and creative photos I've seen.
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