To prepare for gun-related crime on your next road trip to the United States, read Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2001) by Gary Kleck and Don B. Kates, and The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You’ve Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2003), by John R. Lott, Jr.
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“High School Confidential”
by Douglas Coupland
(pp. 23-25)


Is it every grown-up child’s dream to lay waste (artistically or otherwise) to that bane of adolescent existence - high school - or just Douglas Coupland’s While it’s now too late to visit Coupland’s installation Vancouver School, you can still live vicariously through Coupland and his mates by reading a review of the project from the Vancouver Sun and catching a glimpse on the blog of Vancouver advertising firm IndustrialBrand and on Coupland’s website.
To catch up with Coupland’s literary work, check out his latest novel, JPod (Toronto: Random House of Canada, 2006) and one of his most popular earlier works, Hey Nostradamus! (Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2004).
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“My Doomed Voyage”
by Helen Humphreys
(pp. 25-26)


If you’re looking for more on Franklin’s doomed voyage, Owen Beattie and John Grigsby Geiger’s Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Vancouver: Greystone, 2004) goes over the forensic evidence used to uncover the details of Franklin and his men.