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Looking for a photographer to take cute, Christmassy shots of you and your bae frolicking in a spruce forest? Know a potter who makes artisanal mugs perfect for hot chocolate on cold nights? Are you throwing a low-key, ugly sweater christmas party that needs a jazz guitarist to play Vince Guaraldi covers? Don't have enough money to pay for any of these things but refuse to go without them? Well you're in luck! I have compiled five air-tight ways to avoid paying artists this Christmas while still benefitting from their work! 1. Offer them experience. A little known fact about sculptors, musicians, and artists in general is that they are actually quite inexperienced. Therefore, what they need more than anything is practice doing precisely what you want. Even the most skilled artist can improve! So ignore the years of work they have dedicated to mastering their art and offer them something they cannot resist: unpaid labour. 2. Buy them a case of beer or a bag of wee...

BC's New Democratic leader John Horgan announced earlier this week that the government would be going ahead with the nearly $11 billion Site C dam slated for construction near the province's Fort St. John. Numerous Canadians from the political left and right have taken to Facebook to voice their concerns regarding the necessity of the dam. Given the contentious nature of the project, it is perhaps unsurprising that many of these Facebook posts have inspired heated and often confrontational responses. One such post, which started a fiery dialogue between Hugh McClinton and Anders Goffer, became particularly confrontational, so much so that it caught the eye of one of Facebook's newly hired Content  Moderators, Stephen Li. According to Li, such heated debates are common on Facebook, especially during divisive political announcements. However, even Li was surprised at how quickly this particular argument over BC's Site C dam managed to make reference to Adolf Hit...