It is with deepest sorrow that we announce the death of our friend and comrade, Hari Prakash Sharma, on March 16 following a prolonged battle with cancer. Hari took his last breath in his home of 42 years in Burnaby (a suburb of Vancouver), British Columbia, surrounded by his comrades Harinder Mahil, Raj Chouhan, and Chin Banerjee. All of them had come together in 1976 to form the Vancouver Chapter of the Indian People's Association in North America (IPANA), which had been founded by Hari and many others at a meeting in Montreal in 1975.

By Carlito Pablo - March 8, 2010

The activist group No One Is Illegal-Vancouver is preparing to confront what it says is a neo-Nazi rally being planned for March 21, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...“It seems like the voices that may have been quieter before are now feeling like...they can come out and really publicly say things that we would consider completely atrocious and despicable...”

By Peter Kulchyski - March 1st 2010

Colonialism continues to ravage First Nations, Inuit, and Metis lands from real estate, logging, and hydro developments in the west coast, to the tar sands developments in Miskew Cree and Chipweyan territories...But perhaps nothing is as inspiring as seeing and hearing people from...these communities — and more — gathered together to tell their stories and try to find ways of supporting each other.

The banking crisis was not cataclysmic; the financing bubbles that caused it had been developing for many years. So where were the banks’ auditors? Why were bank financial statements showing high levels of profitability right up to the point of the financial collapse? What went wrong with the audit of these banks? Could it have had something to do with excessive standardization? Less than a decade after Arthur Andersen, has the CA profession learnt anything?

While the anti-Olympics convergence and the militant actions in Vancouver have been celebrated as successes by local anarchist organizers and their comrades around the world, two anarchists from Ontario's 'Common Cause' have joined the corporate media, police, and IOC in publicly condemning the black bloc.

March 5, 2010

The Olympics are over but the struggle continues! Vancouver's political community is still being targeted by the police with substantial surveillance and intimidation, unlawful arrests and detentions, unnecessary violence, police provocateurs, and unjust charges requiring legal defence. Nearly 10 people in your community face legal battles and need your support.

By Am Johal - March 05, 2010

Budget Day in BC hit like a brick yesterday. After all the empty patriotism and uncritical headlines in Vancouver mainstream media that glossed over 8 years of democratic distortion, which approached neo-authoritarianism at times, the sad reality of Olympic opportunity costs are about to hit daylight.