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Twenty-five years ago today the first issue of the Canadian alt-weekly hit the streets. In a look back, founders Alice Klein and Michael Hollett revisit the early days and their original vision of engaging the local community and capturing a cultural life missing from other media. It was a venture they didn't take lightly. "Marrying a loud, opinionated social consciousness with entrepreneurialism was like going to the dark side in those days," Klein writes.