Canucks: The movie

Exclusive look at a new documentary about a long-suffering hockey community

Vancouver Sun

Published: Tuesday, November 04, 2008

We love them, we hate them: The Canucks are the longest-running melodrama in our city. In 37 years, they’ve never won a Stanley Cup and have been to the final only twice. Yet we, the fans, have never lost the faith. Forever Faithful — The Canucks Movie pays tribute to us, their diehard boosters. Iain MacIntyre, A10

See the trailer for one day only at vancouversun.com under Editor’s Picks

See the poster for Forever Faithful: The Canucks Movie

Hear Canuck CEO Chris Zimmerman discuss Forever Faithful: The Canucks Movie

Actor Tim Robbins spends five hours trying to cast vote (Van Sun)

Tim Robbins is an ardent Democrat who has been telling the public for months now that, if their right to vote is challenged, people should not cast a provisional ballot.

“Refuse provisional ballots. They’re throwing those out,” he recently said on Real Time with Bill Maher.

So when he turned up to the polling place he had voted in for the last handful of elections and learned he had been removed from the ballot, Robbins held his ground and demanded the right to vote on an election machine.

Robbins told a CNN reporter, “I went to vote where I normally vote and I was not listed. I asked for an explanation; they had none.”

“The poll worker said my name was in the book for the primary two months ago, but missing for the general election,” he added.

Robbins was offered a provisional ballot and refused. Then he called his lawyer and talked to a judge.

Five hours later, Robbins was permitted to vote – under a judge’s order.

Source: Vancouver sun