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BC Hydro stepped up security after last November’s spate of physical attacks on electric substations in Oregon and Washington. A BC Hydro security report, obtained via freedom of information (FOI), said there was no direct threat to B.C.

BC Hydro stepped up security after last November’s spate of physical attacks on electric substations in Oregon and Washington. A BC Hydro security report, obtained via freedom of information (FOI), said there was no direct threat to B.C.

An event to recognize Prisoners Justice Day will be held at the former site of the Prison for Women Wednesday morning.

An event to recognize Prisoners Justice Day will be held at the former site of the Prison for Women Wednesday morning.

Juliet Belmas was sentenced to 20 years for her role in the Squamish Five after waging a violent campaign in the early 1980s that included bombing an Ontario factory making U.S. missile parts.

Juliet Belmas was sentenced to 20 years for her role in the Squamish Five after waging a violent campaign in the early 1980s that included bombing an Ontario factory making U.S. missile parts.

Aaron Chapman has cornered a niche that can perhaps be summed up as “Vancouver after dark,” which happens to be one of the titles of his books.

Though Montreal and other provinces boasted their quotient, Canadian punk’s twin poles were Vancouver and Toronto. The entire nation’s spiritual equivalent of the Stooges or Velvet Underground has to be Hamilton, Ontario’s avant-garage unit Simply Saucer. Began in 1972 by enigmatic singer/guitarist Edgar Breau, they oozed a loud, rowdy mishmash of the Stooges and such latter-day electro-psych outfits as Hawkwind via such charmingly titled angular riff explosions with power electronics as ...