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Winter 2009
ON NEWSSTANDS
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.
[Full Text]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.
[Full Text]For A.M. Hinton, abortion was simply another issue to debate over drinks. Then she became pregnant.
[Full Text]At a time when comic book culture has never been more mainstream -- or more lucrative -- where’s the line between wannabe and true believer?
[Full Text]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.
[Full Text]The prize-winning story from last year’s Quebec Writing Competition
[Full Text]You’ve returned from a traumatizing tour of duty, suicidal and haunted by images you can’t forget. Why won’t the military help?
Cute, skinny and scantily clad, flappers gave the rough-and-tumble funnies a much-needed sexual charge.
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.
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.
Four poems
