One of the things I might read the Georgia Straight for are the announcements of free public lectures at Simon Fraser University, many of which take place at their Harbour Centre Campus in downtown Vancouver. They don't have an RSS feed (?!) but you can also manually check their website(s).
www.sfu.ca/city/fpl.htm and www.sfu.ca/dialogue/events.htm
If anyone else knows of any good online resources for free public events anywhere in the world please post them in the comments section. Thank you.
Posted by vostokone