Charles Montgomery explains how lavish hotels and
high-security fortifications are making Kabul more dangerous; Alexander
Gelfand ponders how personal genetic testing for drug therapy benefits
Big Pharma; David Lees describes recovery efforts for Canadian eels;
John Vaillant recalls an 1884 lynching committed by Americans on Canadian
soil; fiction by Peter Behrens; and more
Fifth-anniversary issue, featuring cover art by Douglas
Coupland; Chris Wood studies the new school of ecological economics;
Michael Winter relives his fall into an incinerator; Guy Saddy recalls
the first flourishing of a moderate, Canadian style of Islam in the 1930s;
a visual essay by Matthew McKinnon, Giles Revell, and Matt Willey deconstructs
self-portraits made with law enforcement’s antiquated Identi-Kit;
fiction by Patrick Lane; and more
Melinda Wenner considers the debate about whether
cellphones cause cancer; Alex Hutchinson argues the need for universal
legal care; Christopher Frey studies the evolution of Turkey and its
role as a bridge between East and West; Matthew Hays examines the complexities
of queer parenthood; Denis Seguin describes life with an Asperger’s
child; fiction by Stephen Marche; and more
Travel and adventure reading from Paul Watson, Michael
Redhill, Guy Gavriel Kay, Jane Urquhart, Miriam Toews, and Pico Iyer;
Don Gillmor recalls Frank Lloyd Wright and family tragedy; Jon Turk relives
his kayak trip around the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu; Wendy
Dennis reflects on the perspective offered by her time living in Austin;
Jill Frayne explores the beauty and danger of lightning; and more
Larry Krotz describes how Canada’s development
and immigration policies let us poach Third World doctors; John Lorinc
gauges the danger of New York being swamped by rising sea levels; Christopher
Shulgan reflects on the 1980 visit by the “architect of perestroika,” Aleksandr
Yakovlev, to the Doukhobors, a Russian sect exiled to B.C. in the 1890s;
Bill Reynolds reveals the hazards and rewards of urban bicycling; fiction
by Austin Clarke; and more
Hal Niedzviecki laments our growing complacency toward
and complicity in a surveillance society; Jan Dutkiewicz and Jeremy Keehn
visit increasingly popular mixed martial arts competitions; a photo essay
by Carlos Cazalis depicts life in the favelas of Brazil’s São
Paulo; Ann Silversides reveals the commercialization of scientific research
in Canada; part three of former MP Barry Campbell’s memoir on life
as a politician; and more
Jay Teitel explains Canadian universities’ unwillingness
to fail students; Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang study General Rick
Hillier, Canada’s chief of defence staff, and his place as a public
figure; Christine Pountney recalls her first experience of big-game hunting;
part two of former MP Barry Campbell’s memoir on life as a politician;
fiction by Janice Galloway; and more
Kate Harries measures radioactive fallout from the
nuclear plant in the town of Port Hope, Ontario; David N. Meyer investigates
the NFL’s use and manipulation of
racial undercurrents in football; Brian Payton studies the impact of
North America’s trans fat regulations on Borneo; part one of former
MP Barry Campbell’s memoir on life as a politician; and more
Peter Valing on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside;
Don Gillmor on Calgary; Mark Kingwell on Toronto; comic artist Julie
Doucet on Montreal; noir fiction set in Canadian cities by Heather O’Neill,
Greg Hollingshead, David Bergen, Charlotte Gill, Donna Morrissey, and
Michael Winter; and more
