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FEATURES

Cuba sí

Editor’s note by Jessica Johnston [Read more]

Last resorts

Cuba’s socialist economy relies on tourism, which was ramped up out of necessity following the collapse of the U.S.S.R., but foreign dollars are creating a new class of Cubans
By Maria Amuchastegui [Read more]

“I will alert the world to your suffering!”

Behind the rise of investigative cartooning
By Brad Mackay [Read more]

Paper route

Journalists for Human Rights has a high-minded and worthy goal: send Canadians to Africa to train reporters and editors there. But, as it turns out, it’s often the Africans who end up training their “teachers”
By Sara Minogue [Pick up the January/February issue of This to read this story]

See the country, save the planet

Five trips that will leave you well-travelled and deserving of a pat on the back
By Peter Trainor [Read more]


THIS & THAT

Profile: A beautiful day in the neighbourhood
Citizens’ Committee cleans up in Montreal By Dominique Jarry-Shore

Easily missed: Dollars and sense
Quantifying the cost of homelessness By Sean Condon

WTF?: A flare for free labour
By Lynn Cunningham

List: Four ways to greener travel
Tips for lightening your environmental load By Lindsay Kneteman

Argument: Give us a break
More holiday time would make happier, more productive workers By Barbara Byers

Whatever happened to: Saving the Amazon?
By Heather Kohlmann

Graphic: Planes, trains and carbon footprints
By Tim Bousquet When travelling, method matters
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Politics: Don’t send flowers yet
Despite its recent defeat in Ontario, electoral reform is alive and kicking By Scott Piatkowski

Economics: Time to tame the wild bird
A lesson in lunacy By Jim Stanford

FICTION & POETRY

Six stories Fiction by Sina Queyras A story about small labours
A story about swimming
A story in which time does not pass
A story according to Raymond Carver
After confessions, a story
Beneath the surface of the mind, a sort of story

Three poems Poetry by Elizabeth Bachinsky Dear Dr. Heung,
Int. Back of Police Car. Night or Notes for a Film in Which an International Pedophile Returns to Canada to Await Trial and Certain Imprisonment
Pig Iron

ARTS & IDEAS

Profile: Speaking out
A Muslim poet gets political By Misha Warbanski

Poems: Street stanzas
By Kathy Sinclair

Photography: All you can eat
By Jesse Kinos-Goodin

Comics: Found in translation By Aimée van Drimmelen

Read this: Soucouyant, by David Chariandy
Review by Nora Tennessen

Books: We’re richer than we think
Canada’s lit has arrived—you can bank on it By John Degen

Television: Quality, meet quantity
TV’s queers are better than ever—now it’s time for the numbers to catch up By Lisa Whittington-Hill

Web: Stop the presses
The transition from paper to pixels will bring good news By Max Fawcett

Then & now: Bottoms up
The bells have changed, but they’re here to stay By Lynn Cunningham

Letters to the editor



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