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Collateral Damage

For almost 30 years, Agent Orange was sprayed on Canadian soil—and the locals are still feeling the effects
By Chris Arsenault [Read more]

The Rap Battles

The double standards of Canadian media don’t add up to 50 Cent. Probing the language of our panicked press, there’s “Just A Lil Bit” of bias
By Dave Morris [Read more]

A Generation’s Legacy

Editor’s Note By Emily Schultz [Read more]

Silenced Majority

Our electoral bodies are 80 percent men. If we do not act, if will take four generations to reach anything like equality. Is proportional representation the way?
By Doris Anderson [Read more]

A Gap in the Movement

Third wavers may not have an abortion caravan, but they’ve got record labels. Setting Feminist Insecurity aside, how do young women find a place in the movement?
By Audra Williams


THIS & THAT

Gone BuggyThe Urban Binning Unit: the power to change how recyclables are collectedBy Meribeth Deen

Tiny TechIt’s a nano world after allBy Zoe Cormier

Drink Outside the BoxÜberbrewers put culture in a kegBy Aimée van Drimmelen

House of SonnetsThe blurred line between poetry and politicsBy Matthew Holmes

Progressive Detective: DeodorantsInvestigating the Politics Behind Everyday Things

We Built This City On Urban SprawlHow to make Cowtown come downtownBy Christopher DeWolf

Stats Can’tNumbed by the numbers gameBy Terence Dick

Your Bank Name HereExploring the possibility of merger mayhemBy Ellen Russell

FICTION & POETRY

Cool By Kate Sutherland

Floating on FictionStuart Ross Interviews Kate Sutherland

3 poems by Lance La Rocque Heat
The Warm Black Sky
Bodies

ARTS & IDEAS

The Garden of Eden & IvanLong an inspiration for local writers, East Van isn’t what it used to beBy Ron Nurwisah

Fatter, Hairier, Uglier, ScarierWhat happens when artist Allyson Mitchell wields her glue gun?By Wendy Banks

Read This: Nothing’s Shocking, and My Baby’s Got A Secret Against the New Authoritarianism: Politics After Abu Ghraib, by Henry Giroux. Review by Charles Demers
A Good War Is Hard to Find, by David Griffith. Review by Brian Joseph Davis
PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives, Compiled by Frank Warren. Review by Tara-Michelle Ziniuk
Sooner, by Margaret Christakos. Review by Trish Salah

Hear This: Off the Beaten Track Reviews by Christine Davidson
Sarah Harmer, I’m a Mountain (Universal)
Near the Parenthesis, Go Out and See (Music Made By People)
Mecca Normal, The Observer (Kill Rock Stars)

Back StoryBody CommodificationExploring how women are always cordoned off from medical scienceBy Karen Darricades



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