AltWeeklies Wire
Why Air Fresheners Stinknew
Evidence suggests the use of common household air fresheners is causing more harm than good to indoor air quality.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Adrienne Beattie |
11-13-2008 |
Culture
Aboriginal Leaders Reject Cancer Study Before Releasenew
It hasn't even been released yet, but aboriginal leaders living downstream from the oilsands are already rejecting an Alberta Cancer Board study into cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Jeremy Klaszus |
11-13-2008 |
Science
A Depressing Trip Back To 'Berlin' With Lou Reednew
Lou Reed revisits the most depressing album ever, with slightly disappointing results.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Mark Hamilton |
11-10-2008 |
Reviews
Guitar Wars: Music Games Go Toe To Toenew
In under three years, music games have become the biggest segment of the video game industry. Kai Huang, president and co-founder of Guitar Hero originator RedOctane, a division of Activision Blizzard, says that the category's sales were $250 million US in 2006, and he expects the number will top $2 billion this year.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Blaine Kyllo |
11-10-2008 |
Video Games
Alberta's Struggling Grizzlies Lack the Protected Status of Tiny Mollusknew
The grizzly bear, a marquee Alberta animal, has plummeted in population from more than 1,000 in 2002 to less than 400. Similarly, the Banff springs snail, a tiny invertebrate found nowhere else on Earth, is precariously close to vanishing. So why's one protected and not the other?
Fast Forward Weekly |
Adrienne Beattie |
10-30-2008 |
Animal Issues
Prime Minister Harper Should Take a Tip from Pearson and Step Asidenew
At a time when the ongoing "war on terror" has been joined by a new "war on recession," our failure to trust any party with a majority says much about the sorry state of politics in Canada.
Fast Forward Weekly |
David Bright |
10-30-2008 |
Commentary
The Best of the Worst: Metal's Most Notorious Album Coversnew
Heavy metal and Halloween go hand in hand.In that spirit, let's take a closer look at some of metal’s most notorious album covers.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Keith Carman |
10-30-2008 |
Music
Why the Living Dead Will Never Die -- a Bit of Zombie Navel-Gazingnew
Zombie movies are everywhere. They surround us like a horde of reanimated corpses clawing at our boarded-up windows, and they just keep coming. Some of these films are brilliant (Shaun of the Dead) and some are awful (Zombie Cop), but fans of the genre are always willing to come back for more.
Fast Forward Weekly |
John Tebbutt |
10-30-2008 |
Movies
Navigating 'Frozen River'new
How far will a mother go to make a better life for her children? It's a question that the debut film by writer-director Courtney Hunt asks and attempts to answer in this remarkably textured and compelling story set close to the Canadian border in upstate New York.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Elizabeth Chorney-Booth |
10-30-2008 |
Reviews
The Battle for Black Bear Crossingnew
Tsuu T'ina elders fight for their homes in Black Bear Crossing, a former military housing complex on the border of Calgary's city limits
Fast Forward Weekly |
Jeremy Klaszus |
10-30-2008 |
Housing & Development
Faceoff with Phaneuf in 'NHL 09'new
Dion Phaneuf scored his first goal of the 2008-09 hockey season a month before the puck dropped on the NHL season. The Calgary Flames player was in Vancouver when he put the puck in the net, helping celebrate the release of Electronic Arts' NHL 09.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Blaine Kyllo |
10-23-2008 |
Video Games
The Rhone Less Travellednew
The Rhone Valley is one of France's most treasured and ancient grape-producing regions. Grapes seem to grow naturally here, spread ubiquitously among the endless sprawling hills, slowly baking under the ever-present Provence sun.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Kevin McLean |
10-23-2008 |
Food+Drink
'Exit Lines': Euthanasia with Humornew
Joan Barfoot's latest novel explores the idea of choice -- the right to choose life or death at will -- through the lives of four very different characters brought together in an old folks home.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Natalie St Denis |
10-23-2008 |
Fiction
Amnesty International Supports Native Opposition of Pipelinenew
Amnesty International has launched a global campaign in support of the Lubicon Cree, days after TransCanada subsidiary Nova Gas was granted permission to build a natural gas pipeline though the band's traditional land.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Angela Brunschot |
10-23-2008 |
Economy
Alberta Finally Funds Midwiferynew
More than a decade after midwives in Alberta started lobbying to be fully funded under the public health-care system, the provincial government has granted their request.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Maureen McNamee |
10-23-2008 |
Science
