As of May 2009, we've got a new website! Please visit us there: this.org


Cover of the March-April 2009 issue of This Magazine
Cover of the May-June 2006 issue

MAY/JUNE 2006

Buy this issue for only $ 6

... or subscribe to This Magazine today and get six great issues for only $24.99

* Buy this issue
* Subscribe to This Magazine


FEATURES

To read those features not online, pick up the latest issue of This, on newsstands and at our virtual newsstand now!

We’re Going to Stalin World!

What’s a former Soviet republic to do with all those leftover statues? Build a theme park of course
By Andrew Potter

Haiti’s High Hopes

In the aftermath of a devastating tropical storm, a coup d’etat and a troubled election, Haiti struggles on
Text and photographs by Colin O’Connor

Farming It Out

We promise guest workers many of the benefits Canadian citizens enjoy—until something goes wrong
By Maria Amuchastegui, Photographs by Vincenzo Pietropaolo [Read more]

The Copyright Wars of 2017

How cut-and-paste culture turns kids into the enemy
By John Sobol [Read more]


THIS & THAT

A Brew of Their OwnFair trade coffee reveals its feminine sideBy Aimée van Drimmelen

Minding the ModernWhy Halifax’s newer buildings deserve respect tooBy Sean Flinn

We’re Here … and Here … and Here …Getting your Pride on across CanadaBy Zoe Whittall

Heed the SwedeTransplanted cheese maker gets Exxon’s goatBy Meagan Perry

Progressive Detective: PronounsInvestigating the Politics Behind Everyday Things

Blog Log: BikesA window into the wonderful but overwhelming world of the blogosphere

Asbestos ReservationsRaven ThunderSky’s fight for an outright banBy Brett Story

Comrade Harper’s One-Percent SolutionTaking aim at the Tory tax cutsBy Ellen Russell

Neighbourhood WatchHow cyberactivists keep the web’s traffic movingBy Terence Dick

FICTION & POETRY

2 poems by Julie Hartley Clown Queen
Snow Suitor

The Right Hand Man By Noah Leznoff

Q+AStuart Ross interviews Noah Leznoff

ARTS & IDEAS

Small VictoriesPedlar Press publishes indie for 10 years and lives to tell about itBy Wendy Banks

Suffering For One’s Art is Romantic, But It’s Still SufferingBy John Degen

Blim Bounces BackVancouver arts space finds a new homeBy Ron Nurwisah

Read This Me Funny, edited by Drew Hayden Taylor. Review by Adrienne Weiss
Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni. Review by Vladi Ivanov
Strike/Slip, by Don McKay. Review by Chris Chambers

Hear This: Off the Beaten Track Reviews by Matthew Elliot
Neko Case, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Mint)
Various Artists, See You On The Moon! Songs for Kids of All Ages (Paper Bag)

Back StoryBald as I Wanna BeWhy we still won’t let our hair down when it comes to bald womenBy Lisa Whittington-Hill



-- Advertisement --
Donate now
-- Advertisement --