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THE BABY ZOO

by REBECCA ROSENBLUM

March 10, 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 ...


WHAT COLOUR FOR MONTREAL’S TAXIS?

by CHRISTOPHER DEWOLF

March 6, 2010

New York is yellow, London black, Hong Kong red (and green and blue, but let’s not complicate things). What colour will Montreal be? After years of wrangling with the taxi commission, Montreal’s government has finally reached an agreement that will see all of the city’s taxis adopt ...


PEEPING TOMS

by CARMINE STARNINO

March 4, 2010

During the seventies, Kohei Yoshiyuki stalked Tokyo parks at night with a 35mm, infrared film and flash to take pictures of copulating couples and, sometimes, the "peepers" who watched them. The photographs were first shown in 1979, at Komai Gallery, Tokyo and have now been collected in a book called ...


CANADA’S DIVIDE-AND-RULE AID POLITICS IN PALESTINE

by JESSE ROSENFELD

March 3, 2010

In a uniquely Canadian way—politely, subtly—the Conservative government has made a clear statement in support of Israel’s divide-and-conquer rule over the Palestinian Territories. By slashing funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and instead pumping money into the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) judicial sector ...


THE DEATH OF RECORD STORES

by RYAN MCNUTT

March 2, 2010

The vinyl, of course, was the first to go.

It didn’t take much to attract the most elite of music fetishists to the sell-off: a 20 per cent discount was enough to leave the vinyl racks of CD Plus ravaged. By the time I got there, all that was ...


THE NEW MIXOLOGISTS

by STEVEN W. BEATTIE

February 26, 2010

You may not have heard of Helene Hegemann, but the 17-year-old German writer is at the centre of a brewing storm around the subjects of copyright and the nature of authorship in the Internet age. Hegemann is the author of a book titled Axolotl Roadkill, which has become a bestseller ...


POSTCARD FROM VANCOUVER

by PALOMA FRIEDMAN

February 25, 2010

Photo by James Giddy

When I moved to Vancouver from Montreal six months ago, I didn’t give much thought to where in the city I wanted to live. I hardly knew Vancouver—what drew me out here were sea breezes and an anglo lit scene. All I cared about ...


VANCOUVER OLYMPICS REAX II

by MAISONNEUVE STAFF

February 22, 2010


Colby Cosh

Canadian journalists covering the Games have, virtually to a man, accepted the premise that the Games provide an accurate moral, artistic, and technical reflection on Canada as a whole. I don’t remember signing that contract, and if I were going to sign one with a city and ...


FIVE RING CIRCUS: NOTHING RHYMES WITH ORANGE—EXCEPT HEINEKEN

by PALOMA FRIEDMAN

February 20, 2010

Photo by Iva Gruden

"Dank u wel,” says the tall, blond screener. I’ve just passed through security tighter than an Israeli airport and penetrated the massive, Popsicle-orange compound known as the Holland Heineken House. It’s located in the Richmond “Ozone,” about twenty minutes from downtown at the end ...


TWO MAISY WRITERS TRY THEIR HAND AT CHATROULETTE

by SALVATORE CIOLFI AND RYAN MCNUTT

February 18, 2010

Salvatore Ciolfi

Created by a 17-year-old Russian, Chatroulette is a website that lets you chat with strangers. There are no rules or screen names. All you have is your face staring back at you, and, above that, you staring at a stranger’s face.  Its appeal is that if you ...


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Winter

ISSUE 34

Winter 2009


ON NEWSSTANDS

  • A More Perfect Union

    by LES HORSWILL

    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

    by SHAUN PETT

    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

    by A.M. HINTON

    For A.M. Hinton, abortion was simply another issue to debate over drinks. Then she became pregnant.

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  • Generation Geek

    by JOHN SEMLEY

    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

    by NATHAN WHITLOCK

    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

    by KASIA JUNO VAN SCHAIK

    The prize-winning story from last year’s Quebec Writing Competition

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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

  • Soldier's Heart

    by JOEL ELLIOTT

    You’ve returned from a traumatizing tour of duty, suicidal and haunted by images you can’t forget. Why won’t the military help?

  • Flappers

    by CHRISTOPHER MILLER

    Cute, skinny and scantily clad, flappers gave the rough-and-tumble funnies a much-needed sexual charge.

  • Kill Them All

    by STEPHEN O'SHEA

    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.

  • Old Gays

    by JEAN-YVES GIRARD

    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 Seasons

    by SUSAN BRISCOE

    Four poems

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