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FEATURES

Stage fright

Editor’s note by Jessica Johnston [Read more]

Pulling strings, making trouble

From the productions of Dora-award winner Ronnie Burkett to the giants who populate protests, political puppets are acting up
By Jennifer O’Connor [Read more]

Scenes from my last play

Why Governor General’s Award winner Jason Sherman is in television now
By Jason Sherman [Read more]

News from the stage

Canadian curtain opens on reality theatre
By Carrie-May Siggins [Read more]

Crime scenes

Prisoners at William Head penitentiary perform plays every year. It’s a popular and effective program for rehabilitation—so why is it unique?
By Shawn Thompson [Read more]

The 11TH ANNUAL GREAT CANADIAN LITERARY HUNT

Pick up the November/December issue of This to read the winners and finalists


THIS & THAT

Profile: Olympic objections
Students for a Free Tibet take on China By Andrea Chiu

Easily missed: Boxes for Jesus
Canadian students become unwitting Christian soldiers By Valerie Mutton

Easily missed: Hot and bothered
Inco vs. MonctonBy Chris Arsenault

WTF?: Math is hard!

Harper watch: Harper watch
By Nora Tennessen

Graphic: How many Tofurkeys a-layin’?
By Jesse Kinos-Goodin and Nora Tennessen [Link opens PDF file]

Argument: Blind spot
Why The Accessible Channel’s vision is impaired By Geof Collis

List: Five reasons to oppose regional trade agreements
By Jesse McLean

Whatever happened to: The hole in the ozone layer?
By Zoe Cormier

Economics: The Montebello mystery
Are the pols and CEOs fiddling while the manufacturing sector burns? By Ellen Russell

Politics: Crude awakening
Why are environmentalists asleep at the tar sands wheel? By Dru Oja Jay

Food: Fish sticks these ain’t
Cooking lessons from the islands By Wayne Roberts

FICTION & POETRY: THE GREAT CANADIAN LITERARY HUNT 2007

Pick up the November/December issue to read this year’s winning entries. They won’t be available online, so don’t delay!

ARTS & IDEAS

Profile: Confronting class
Renaissance activist takes it to the streets By Jeff Nield

Music: Up in Arms
By Jo Snyder

Multimedia: Press “1” to confess
By Pike Krpan

Theatre: All the world’s a stage By Alex Molotokow

Read this: Forsaken, by Lana Slezic
Review by Wendy Glauser

Web: War, web style
Evolution of a cyber-battlefield By Terence Dick

Film: Get your weep on
Social-issue drama sells in Oscar season By Chris Eng

Books: A tale of two realities
Americans take a page from the book of role reversal By John Degen

Then & now: Labour laws and protections
A not-so-illustrious history results in one question: how far have we come? By Lynn Cunningham

Letters to the editor



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