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Four city councillors said they were not convinced that sufficient public consultation was performed with the residents of Forest Grove, the neighbourhood impacted by the straight, direct line option of Route 1 between SkyTrain’s Production-Way University Station and the core of the SFU campus atop the mountain.
TransLink staff have informed City of Burnaby staff that the public transit authority is willing to provide compensation for two multi-family residential properties in Forest Grove directly impacted by the aerial line in the Route 1 option, but several city councillors argued this is insufficient.
“I’m not very satisfied with the consultation with the residents of the affected complexes and some of the businesses,” said councillor Pietro Calendino, suggesting properties outside of the 20-metre wide gondola right-of-way should also be compensated.
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 ‘70s Toronto punk bills, a demo session cut with future
U2 megaproducer Daniel Lanois and his brother Bill eventually forming a chunk of posthumous release
Living with Lions Holy Shit and Canadian Music s Stinkiest Controversy Turns 10
Ten years later, the Vancouver pop-punks discuss how they were putting other artists at risk after their Bible parody drew the Harper government s ire
Photo: Adam Feibel
Published May 13, 2021
They knew it was stupid. Of course it was stupid. Generally speaking, an adult who draws a cartoon of a human turd any turd, really knows fully well that it s crude and juvenile and tasteless and, well, stupid. But it s funny! …Right?
The title of Living with Lions second album came first.
Holy Shit. Why? Basically, the five members of the Vancouver-based band just thought it was a fun phrase.
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Among the host of revelatory punk documentaries to emerge in recent years,
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement stands out as a truly extraordinary deep dive into the community dynamics and material conditions that spawned the first waves of Washington, D.C., hardcore.
Using rare footage and candid interviews with prominent and lesser-known figures from the region,
Punk the Capital will likely resonate with anyone in a small market who has attempted, or is currently attempting, to galvanize and nurture a subversive arts community whose members might not always see eye-to-eye about everything, but still make something magical together.