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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 “Bullet Proof Nothing” and “Dance The Mutation.” They lasted long enough to slot into late ...