Larry Frolick foretells the death of suburbia at the
hands of urban planning; Chris Tenove looks at the legacy of the Nuremburg
trials in the modern-day prosecution of war crimes; Adam Gilders goes
to meet a feral child known as the “Fiji Chicken Man”; Joshua
Knelman investigates the multi-billion-dollar business of art theft;
fiction by Merilyn Simonds; and more
Chris Wood examines the environmental and financial
impact of Canada’s glaciers; Gwynne Dyer warns of the consequences
of US attempts to constrain China militarily; Alison Gillmor asks if
the household organization trend hasn’t gone overboard; Francis
Chalifour reflects on coming to terms with the death of his father; Eamon
Mac Mahon photographs Uranium City, a Saskatchewan mining town that boomed
during the Cold War; and more
Wendy Dennis argues that new findings and the popularity
of The Sopranos signal a return from obscurity for psychoanalysis;
James Laxer considers the proper role of the American empire in global
politics; Alastair Brown recounts his love affair with film; Timothy
Taylor looks at the globalization of English soccer; poetry by Lisa Jarnot;
and more
Murray Dobbin asks if Jim Harris can bring the Green
Party to the mainstream; love letters by Margaret Atwood, David Bezmozgis,
Leonard Cohen, Sheila Heti, Jonathan Lethem, MG Vassanji, and Juli Zeh;
fiction by Wayne Johnson, Helen Humphreys, Robin Collyer, Yiorgos Skabardonis,
and Richard Hahn; Jake MacDonald looks at the US military’s growing
use of psychological tactics, both on enemies and at home; and more
Bill Cameron describes his life with terminal cancer;
David Berlin speaks to Israeli settlers ordered to withdraw from their
settlement on the Gaza Strip; Rick Salutin ponders the “good guys” and “bad
guys” of his son’s moral world; Patrick Lane wrestles with
his complicity in the logging industry that is consuming the forests
he grew up in; Robert Mason Lee charts the descent of the British monarchy
from their formerly sacrosanct status; and more
Don Gillmor considers the implications of Alberta’s
considerable oil reserves in a climate of increasing scarcity; Joan Bryden
argues that the Catholic Church’s secretive marriage-annulment
process makes its stance on the sanctity of male-female marriage hypocritical;
Rita Leistner visits and photographs Baghdad’s largest psychiatric
hospital; Larry Frolick tells the story of a disastrous tidal wave reaching
a small Thai village; fiction by Lynn Coady; and more
Jeremy Rifkin suggests that Canada is quietly becoming
one with the US’s “blue states”; George Emerson modestly
proposes that Canada tax blank paper, to go along with its blank CD tariff;
Susan McLelland looks at efforts to secure rights and protections for
Canada’s huge population of immigrant nannies; Andrew Mitrovica
profiles Canada’s most successful undercover agent; short fiction
by Margaret Atwood; and more
Allan Gregg argues that Paul Martin’s health
accord threatens Canada’s national unity; John Fraser looks at
the evolution of modern China and wonders what its future relationship
with Canada will be; Lawrence Hill asks what black Americans’ obligations
are to the people of Africa; Brian Preston asks if a new marijuana mist
could become the Aspirin of the twenty-first century; and more
Wendy Dennis ponders the contrast between the realities
of modern marriage and the myths that still surround it; Andrea Mandel-Campbell
warns that Canada may be losing its claim to the North; Ahmet Sel photographs
the people of Kabul; Paul Webster sounds an alarm about fire retardants
that may in fact be toxic; Donna Morrissey remembers a snowy drive with
her father; and more
