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FEATURES

Happy birthday to This

Editor’s Note By Jessica Johnston [Read more]

The good, the bad and the just plain bizarre

This Magazine contributors reflect on their moments of glory, shame, stress and admiration over the past 40 years.
By Annette Bourdeau

Because not everything is political

Contributing editor Rick Salutin challenges This Mag’s conventional wisdom
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40 ideas we need now

On the occasion of our 40th birthday, we asked 40 past and present contributors—and some distinguished guests—for a big idea whose time has come. Here are their responses
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THIS & THAT

What would Jesus ride?Geez magazine editor gives activism its spiritBy Bryan Borzykowski

Because everything is statisticalThis Magazine then and nowBy Lynn Cunningham

1966Twister shares our birthday

Life is a frozen highwayClimate change threatens northern roadsBy Jennifer Geens

Indeed, crony capitalism featured Foucauldian flaneurs…Are all words you won’t typically read in This’s pages

No choiceFredericton hospital suspends abortion servicesBy Jennifer O’Connor

An ounce of preventionBlack activists step up HIV/AIDS outreachBy Wendy Glauser

Blog LogThis time around: books and blogs get alongBy Ron Nurwisah

Harper IndexBy Matthew Elliot

Progressive DetectiveHoliday gifts that won’t clutter the closet

We thinks they doth protest too muchChallenging the Cold-fx cure for the common coldBy Soraya Roberts

Bring on the NovocaineStephen Harper wants to starve your beastBy Ellen Russell

No glove, no loveA user's guide to safe surf practicesBy Terence Dick

FICTION & POETRY: SPECIAL EXPANDED ANNIVERSARY SECTION

SquirrelPoetry by Chris Chambers

QuaysidePoetry by Evelyn Lau

Market place religionPoetry by Lillian Allen

The boy who waited three minutesFiction by Stuart Ross

How I relate to American poetryFiction by John Degen

Declarations of WarPoetry by Jim Smith

SundialPoetry by Kevin Connolly

Old PostcardPoetry by Phil Hall

Brother DumbBook excerpt by Sky Gilbert

They Give EvidencePoetry by Margaret Atwood

Satchel PaigePoetry by George Bowering

Dufferin Grove ParkPoetry by RM Vaughan

ARTS & IDEAS

The idea machine that never sleepsTyler Clark Burke gets the party startedBy Julia De Laurentiis Johnson

Playing GodCoupland characters take Vancouver stageBy Carrie-May Siggins

If at first you don’t succeed…By Brian Grison

Read This Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive Sweet, by Carol Off. Review by Peter McCamus
The Fearsome Particles, by Trevor Cole. Review by Bonnie Bowman
Suburban Pornography & other stories, by Matthew Firth. Review by Holland Gidney Every Inadequate Name, by Nick Thran. Review by Kathy Sinclair

How long must we sing this song?We compile the 40 essential resistance songsBy Mason Wright

Hear This: Off the Beaten Track Reviews by Christine Davidson
Subhumans, New Dark Age Parade (G7 Welcoming Committee)
Neon Tetra, Home (Noise Factory)
Two Hours Traffic, Isolator (Independent)

Back StoryStaple thesis still holdsA special Innis Memorial ColumnBy Mel Watkins



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