Bios
Charles Demers
Stories by Charles Demers
My Suburban Summer
An East Van kid sends a postcard from the edge.
My Day at the Right-Wing Think Tank
Taking in Andrew Cohen at the Fraser Institute.
Luminous Calamity
40 years of writing on Palestine and Israel.
Sidekicks to American Empire
An interview with Linda McQuaig
Love, Work and War
Andrea MacPherson on her female world in 'Beyond the Blue.'
Smatter of Fact
'The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism' is just one of the new offenders.
The Case for Anarchy
It's time to (sort of) smash the state, says Bakunin biographer Mark Leier.
Tim Hortons: A Holey History
Spooky bakers, topless waitresses, and a doughnut king filled with ego to gag.
Book Slaves
A Chapters union organizer on cheap labour and box store ethics.
Blaming 'The God Delusion'
Richard Dawkins's attack on religion gets flak even from the left.
Reading Bob Rae
Blame an ungrateful left (say his books) for turning me Liberal.
Paul William Roberts: 'Mr. Love'
After superb Iraq reportage, he invents a nasty future.
Tale of a 'Bad White Black Man'
And other stories from Western Canada's first black literary press.
'Survivor: Two Solitudes': Let's Do It!
Canada's copycats slow to jump on a hot concept.
Big Cities Need Bad Actors
Eden Robinson's 'Blood Sports' builds a stylish Vancouver crime mythology.
The God's Truth
'Hijacking Jesus' argues the right distorts Christianity. But who doesn't?
Who Knows the Muslim Mind?
Perhaps Muslim and Arab authors can help the confused 'westerner.'
'Terrorist' Offers Islam for Dummies
Meet H. al-din Caulfield, troubled protagonist of John Updike's troubled new novel.
Why the Code? Because We Share
In a po-mo, mass-market world, unfortunately, that trumps literature.
Hurricanes Are Handy!
For stealing land and whitening up a place.
I'm Offended!
My detour into the mega-rude t-shirt world.
Woody Allen's Second Act?
He can't come back if he never went away.
What Richard Pryor Gave Us
Funny stuff: religion, militarism, the police, racism, class.
- Appeal court upholds ruling on protection of orca habitat
- Foreign takeover score is 14,218 to two calculates Mel Hurtig, who speaks Saturday
- Abbott blames teachers' union, hints at legislation
- Greens exaggerating fracking fears 'to control you': Santorum
- Prime Minister Harper mixes oil with human rights on visit to China
- Civil jury finds former BC premier Vander Zalm guilty of defamation
- Vancouver theatre runs down curtain on section of BC's outdated liquor laws
- BC Premier Clark to replace throne speech with radio appearance
- 'The Kids Are All Right'
- 'Leave Your Shoes On'
- Glaciers, BC Hydro's Melting 'Batteries'
- Frankie Rose Makes Life Tougher for Journalists
- Too Much Energy Used to Mine, Move Bitumen Says BC Firm
- Becoming the Ethical Hunter
- Shadow Workers of the World, Revolt!
- Three Ryan Gosling Pickup Techniques that Don't Work in Real Life
- Could SOPA Pervade Canadian Copyright Law?
- Would You Buy a Used Car from These Libs?
- Shadow Workers of the World, Revolt!
- Economist Calls Gateway Pipeline an Inflationary 'Threat'
- Bill Rees' Last Lecture
- Too Much Energy Used to Mine, Move Bitumen Says BC Firm
- Is Canada Ignoring Signs of a Coming Economic Collapse?
- Harper in China
- How First Nations Are Gearing Up for Legal Battle Against Gateway
- Eleven Oily Questions for Every MP
- Remembering Lloyd Dykk's Wit, Generosity and Superb Prose
- BC Child Care Advocates in Geneva to Complain to UN
- BC, You Love You
- Shadow Workers of the World, Revolt!
- Who Pays Huge Power Bills for Clark's Gas Plants?
- Make It the Canadian Webcasting Corporation
- Harper in China
- When the Prize Is a Chance to Toil on BC's Farms
- Three Ryan Gosling Pickup Techniques that Don't Work in Real Life
- Would You Buy a Used Car from These Libs?
- Time to Zip John Baird's Loose Lips
- Foreign Trade Zones Eyed for Vancouver, Prince Rupert, Prince George
- Board, BC mayors make the case for Vancouver transit audit
- Tensions flare over Vancouver-owned mine in Oaxaca
- Osoyoos Times editor apologizes for comments on RCMP
- BC premier delivers talk show 'throne speech'
- NDP leadership: Thomas Mulcair ahead on first ballot, internal poll suggests
- Sky is the limit for use of mini, unmanned planes
- Prime Minister by day, oil exec by night
- Animal-made 'art' challenges human monopoly on creativity
