ISSUE 32
Summer 2009
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The Blogfathers
Italy's Senate recently approved a bill that could wipe Italian bloggers off the face of the internet forever.
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Be Afraid
Do you believe that illegal immigrants are stealing our jobs? Or that sexual deviants lurk in every neighbourhood? You’re not alone.
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Whoa, Calgary!
With oil workers laid off and construction halted, Canada’s fastest city has discovered the Slow movement (from the Summer 2009 issue)
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In Praise of Devastation
As developing nations come into their own, environmental destruction may be a necessary part of the cost.
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Places to Drink Outside in Halifax
"Abby has never done this before, but she knows it's all wrong"
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Three Poems by Damian Rogers
“I’m attracted to that sense of beauty, order, shape and form that emerges outside the status quo.”
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The X Factor
AIDS researchers have struggled to find a cure for the disease for thirty years. But what if they have it all wrong?
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Net Loss
Why the Canadian government must step in to keep the internet free from control and open to innovation.
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Mongolian Invasions
In 1206, Genghis Khan forged an empire that stretched from Korea to Kiev. When Dave Bidini visited the country 800 years later, he found a land that dreamed of reclaiming domination—this time with pucks.
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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
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Houseboat Days
The bliss and perils of life on Canada’s northern waters.
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No Man's Land
Egypt is shooting them. Israel won’t recognize them. What’s a poor refugee to do?
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Nightsticks
When getting clubbed by police was funny.
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Neither Celebrated Nor Forgotten
The sovereigntist protests over a planned re-enactment of the pivotal 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham offer an opportunity for Quebecers to forge a new relationship with their own history.
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The Year the Lights Went Out
Severe power outages are killing Nepal’s few remaining industries. Matthew Kruchak on life without electricity in the world’s youngest republic.
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Contributor’s Notes
DAVE BIDINI is a former member of the Rheostatics. He has written eight books and two plays, and directed three films. His next book, Home and Away: Adventures at the 2008 Homeless World Cup, will be published by Greystone Books.
Winner of the 2006 CBC Literary Award for Short Story, and the Metcalf-Rooke Award For Short Fiction 2008, AMY JONES' first book, What Boys Like & Other Stories, is due out from Biblioasis in 2010.
DAMIAN ROGERS was born outside Detroit, and has worked at many fine establishments over the years, including Jack Cauley Chevrolet, Drag City Records, CosmoGIRL! and Poetry magazine. She now lives inside Toronto and was the arts editor at Eye Weekly for five years. Her first book of poems, Paper Radio, will be published by ECW Press in 2009.
TADZIO RICHARDS is a journalist and filmmaker. Currently he is working with Bunbury Films on a documentary about oil- and gas-related issues in Alberta. His last article for Maisonneuve was “An Awful Heathen Thing We Do” (Issue 29, Fall 2008).
MATTHEW KRUCHAK has published in the Globe and Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star. Other pieces have been broadcast on CBC Radio, A&E Biography and the History Television. He is currently freelancing from Nepal.
CHRISTOPHER MILLER’S new novel The Cardboard Universe (Harper Perennial) was released in April 2009. Alongside his interest in comic strips, Miller has a large collection of fake and novelty foods gathered from around the world. He currently teaches at Bennington College in Vermont.
An award-winning Toronto journalist, BRUCE LIVESEY has written for over thirty newspapers and magazines, including the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Toronto Star, the Walrus, Canadian Lawyer, and Report on Business magazine. He has won a Canadian Association of Journalism award, a National Magazine Award and four Kenneth R. Wilson awards. His last article for Maisonneuve was “Scientology’s Defier” (Issue 27, Spring 2008).
Born and raised in Sicily, journalist LORENZO TONDO has covered the Mafia and politics on both sides of the ocean for the Globe and Mail, the South China Morning Post, the Daily Telegraph, the Herald, La Republica and La Stampa. He lives in Toronto.
JON EVANS is the author of four novels, including Invisible Armies and the Arthur Ellis Award-winning Dark Places. His journalism has been published in Wired, the Globe and Mail and the Guardian. His last article for Maisonneuve was “Can a Video Game Make You Cry?” (Issue 30, Winter 2008).
Based in Yellowknife, TIM QUERENGESSER has written for the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, the Beaver, and Adbusters. He is an editor at Up Here magazine. His last article for Maisonneuve was “Mama Obama” (Issue 28, Summer 2008).
The images in this photo essay are taken by photographer and author FRAN HURCOMB. Since arriving in the Northwest Territories in 1975, Hurcomb has lived on a trapline, run sled dogs for almost twenty years and built (and lived on) her own houseboat.
CHRISTOPHER WATT is a graduate student in London who studies resource disputes and contested cities. He has written for the Globe and Mail and walrusmagazine.com. His last article for Maisonneuve was “In the Land of Stalin” (Issue 30, Winter 2008).
