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JULY/AUGUST 2004

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FEATURES

Yankee go home!

The Americanization of Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, is driving up land prices in this hippie hideout—and inspiring longtime residents to take matters into their own hands By Grant Shilling [Read more]

We’re not in Dixie anymore, Bubba

NASCAR dads have become the swing vote in this fall’s US presidential election. But to understand the man, you must first try to understand what drives him By David Hayes [Read more]

This boat is my boat

First they stole our land, then our methods of water transportation. Cultural appropriation aside, is it too much to ask that weekend warriors give the canoe and kayak some respect? By Drew Hayden Taylor [Read more]

There ain’t no cure for the summer camp blues

If you want a picture of camp, imaging a sneaker stamping on a human face—for a whole summer. How one middle-class kid not only survived the Orwellian experience of self-improvement camp, but lived to tell the tale By David Leach [Read more]

This isn’t summer stock

For the current and former mental health patients who make up the Workman Theatre Project, acting is a step toward healing—a way to take control of their minds and bodies By Caitlin Fullerton [Read more]


THIS & THAT

The new voice of democracy How poets, not politicians, are politicizing Ottawa youth By Jackie Wallace

Are minimum wage hikes worth the trouble? Refresher Course: By Bruce Gillespie

Sponsorship, shmonsorship Yes, the scandal was sleazy, but itıs not nearly the most offensive and wasteful thing the federal Liberals have done By Jim Stanford

Plastic fantastic! Cosmetic enhancement for the common folk By Annette Bourdeau

PLUS Vespas scoot back into Canada, the shipping magnate news and experts weigh in on Svend-gate

FICTION & POETRY

Cold Lake Karaoke Bar By Laurie Fuhr

Dazzle by Jason Anderson

PLUS Stuart Ross chats with Jason Anderson about celebrity encounters and giving up his Xbox for the love of writing

ARTS & IDEAS

Red Vinyl Diaries By Tash Fryzuk

War photography is hell A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but a snapshot rarely tells the whole story By Brian Joseph Davis

Read This: The best of the Canadian small press
Idea man, by Jack Layton, Review by Sue McCluskey
I know you are but what am I? by Heather Birrell, Review by Adam Lewis Schroeder
Free culture: How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity, by Lawrence Lessig, Review by Andrew Potter
Viral Suite, by Mari-Lou Rowley, Review by Rajinderpal S. Pal

PLUS Vancouver artists’ collective takes the piss out of pretentious showings, and new music by Bob Wiseman and The Organ

Question Authority Ho Che Anderson on a cartoonist's call to action Interview by Andre Mayer

Letters to the editor



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