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FEATURES

Spring renovating

Editor’s Note By Jessica Johnston [Read more]

No place for home

After years of neglect, Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside now faces a development boom that is threatening to displace thousands of low-income residents
By Sean Condon

Staying the course

Why Canada shouldn’t pull its troops out of Afghanistan
By Jared Ferrie [Read more]

Mining misery

Guatemala is one of many countries that has attracted investment from Canadian mining companies — but at what cost?
By Maria Amuchastegui [Read more]


THIS & THAT

Profile: Carol Mark’s revolution
Toronto gallery owner uses art to fund literature—in Afghanistan By Sonja Mikovic

News: CARE’s new wave
Development group puts its money on the middle class By Wendy Glauser

Argument: Barbies gone bad
The jailbait Bratz line are no baby dolls By Dorothy Woodend

Graphic: Passport 101
See passports in a new light [link opens PDF file] By Stacy Lee Kong

Contrarian: Democracy fever
Take two polls on electoral reform and call me in the morning By Andrew Potter

Politics: We’re still friends, right?
With Harper so wrong about Arar then, why so righteous now? By Scott Piatkowski

Economics: Empty net economics
How the Tories are deking the debt issue By Ellen Russell

Plus: This & That roundup
Guarding secret sources, blame it on the rain and four not-so-great consumables

FICTION & POETRY

In Summer Tense Fiction by Maria Smythe

Fish of Rage Poetry by Gary Barwin

Sorrow for Frogsong Poetry by Paul Vermeersch

ARTS & IDEAS

Profile: Plotting an escape route
Greg Greene goes back to Suburbia By Tara Irwin

Read This: Emergency Contact
Review of Tara-Michelle Ziniuk’s Emergency Contact By Karen Darricades

Film: A history in the making up
As long as it looks cool, who cares if it’s accurate? By Chris Eng

Books: Flirting with disaster
Doom and gloom keep books jumping off the shelves By Ron Nurwisah BOOKS DISCUSSED: Pandemonium by Andrew Nikiforuk, The Upside of Down by Thomas Homer-Dixon, and Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning by George Monbiot

Web: Socialism, internet style
How the web will transform the world — again By Brian Joseph Davis

Plus: Arts & Ideas roundup
Audio books from the Rock, fashion forward and good-hearted knitters

Then & Now: Born again Bolshevik?
Rafe Mair’s journey from free-enterpriser to 21st-century socialist By Mason Wright

Letters to the editor



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