TOP TEN
- Why Video Game Research is Flawed
- What if Avatar Took Over Harper’s ‘Findings’?
- Confessions of a Teenage Fabulist
- Two Maisy Writers Try Their Hand at Chatroulette
- Montreal: The Olympic Legacy
- The Art of Knit Graffiti
- The Happiness Project
- How a Soft Drink Became Quebec's Homegrown Insult
- Noisy Twits
- Interview with David McGimpsey
FOlLOW MAISY!
FOIE GRAS WARS
Welcome to Quebec's newest food fight.
THE GREEN GOSPEL
Evangelical Christians have started to hear a new sermon from the pulpit: conservation. Not everyone within the church is happy about it.
CLOTHESPIN ENCOUNTERS
In search of the perfect peg.
CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE FABULIST
What happens when a scholarship student at a top Canadian journalism school fabricates close to a dozen stories? Nothing, apparently.
3D GAMES WAIT FOR THEIR AVATAR MOMENT
3D movie-making is Hollywood's latest obsession, but major game companies—and gamers—are giving the technology a pass for now.
INTERVIEW WITH DAVID MCGIMPSEY
In this except from a new book of essays, the Montreal poet discusses his love for Alice Cooper, his songwriting chops and the link between poetry and sitcoms.
A MORE PERFECT UNION
The border between Canada and the United States pits two great countries against each other. Les Horswill makes the case for a greater North American federation.
THE BLOGFATHERS
Italy's Senate recently approved a bill that could wipe Italian bloggers off the face of the internet forever.
DEATH OF A SPORTS FAN
A lapsed sports believer spends a day watching ESPN classics in an attempt to get that lovin' feeling again.
WHIPPING BOYS
Bruce Livesey rebuts the McGill Daily's dismissal of his controversial Summer 2009 cover story as "pseudo-scientific."
Last November, The McGill Daily published a feature article by Stephanie Law entitled “In Denial” about HIV and AIDS that was in response to a cover story I’d written for Maisonneuve. Law’s article zealously reflected the medical establishment line that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS while ...
[more]BE AFRAID
Do you believe that illegal immigrants are stealing our jobs? Or that sexual deviants lurk in every neighbourhood? You’re not alone.
ONE MORNING ON THE LONDON TUBE, the District Line ground to a halt between stations. Roused from her commuter stupor, a woman reached into her blouse, drew out a crucifix and kissed it. When the train lurched to life thirty seconds later, she leaned toward a gentleman reading a tabloid ...
[more]MONTREAL: THE OLYMPIC LEGACY
Back in 2003, when Vancouver was putting together its bid for the 2010 Winter Games, Dick Pound -- a member of the International Olympic Committee -- defended the legacy of the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics in Maisonneuve.
The Olympic Games are the stuff of both legend and fact. The legend that surrounds Canadian hosting of the Games, especially those in Montreal, is that they were ruinously expensive and a drain on the resources of the community and the country as a whole. Twenty-seven years after Montreal was ...
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THE BABY ZOO
March 10th, 2010
I keep forgetting to tell you guys about the Baby Zoo! This has nothing to do with anything, but it's something that makes me happy and maybe you'll like it too.
Even back in the days when I thought babies were sticky, noisy emergency-room-visits-waiting-to-happen, and wouldn't hold one unless I was sitting on the floor (less falling distance, should I happen to lose my grip) (uh, that would be my whole life up until about three years ago, when the first of my good friends had one), I still liked looking at babies from a distance. It's pretty much the future of the species in adults finding babies cute-looking, and someone really got all the design ...
ISSUE 34
Winter 2009
ON NEWSSTANDS
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A More Perfect Union
The border between Canada and the United States pits two great countries against each other. Les Horswill makes the case for a greater North American federation.
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The Happiness Project
Endless economic growth hasn’t made us happier, so why do governments still tie well-being to wealth? Presenting a new, made-in-Canada benchmark for progress.
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My Choice
For A.M. Hinton, abortion was simply another issue to debate over drinks. Then she became pregnant.
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Generation Geek
At a time when comic book culture has never been more mainstream -- or more lucrative -- where’s the line between wannabe and true believer?
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The Not-Quite Novel
In their scramble to find the next breakthrough book, publishers are marketing awkward hybrids that are neither literary enough to last nor commercial enough to entertain.
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The Fox
The prize-winning story from last year’s Quebec Writing Competition
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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
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Soldier's Heart
You’ve returned from a traumatizing tour of duty, suicidal and haunted by images you can’t forget. Why won’t the military help?
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Flappers
Cute, skinny and scantily clad, flappers gave the rough-and-tumble funnies a much-needed sexual charge.
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Kill Them All
Eight hundred years ago, crusaders slaughtered twenty thousand people in Languedoc, France. Today, fascination with the massacre has turned the region into a tourist trap.
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Old Gays
The generation that launched the queer-rights movement is entering its golden years. Some are still in no hurry to step out of the closet. Translated by Valerie Howes.
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Four Seasons
Four poems