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MARCH/APRIL 2008

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FEATURES

Highway to the danger zone

Editor’s note by Jessica Johnston [Read more]

Plastic unfantastic

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean is a “garbage patch” at least the size of Texas. The expanse of sea-born waste points to a growing global crisis: the overuse and poor disposal of cheap and abundant plastics
By Zoe Cormier [Read more]

Courting catastrophe

Andrew Nikiforuk, Calgary journalist and author of Pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease, and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century, talks to This Magazine about deadly bananas, the beetle that ate British Columbia and life in an age of “unending emergency”
By Graham F. Scott [Read more]

Outbreak!

Why is our resistance to antibiotics escalating? The villians may be different than we think. Some scientists say the cause could be genetically modified E. coli casually used in industrial labs—and high school classrooms
By Alex Roslin [Read more]

Server error

Millions of people a day rely on Google to search, email, schedule, map, study, and Youtube. So what happens if it fails?
By Richard Poplak [Read more]


THIS & THAT

Profile: This land is our land
A Mohawk woman’s border battle By Tania Tabar

Easily missed: Stuck in neutral
Greener cars come slowly to unions By Stephen Hui

WTF?: Lights, camera…robots?
Canwest’s new cuts bring sci-fi to local news By Derek Rosin

Whatever happened to: Killer bees?
All the buzz on the B-movie baddies By Vanessa Milne

List: 3 reasons to be afraid, very afraid
Some (not-so) far-out scenarios to keep you on your toes By Emily Rauhala

Argument: The path ahead
Why cities need to take cycling seriously By Scott McAnsh

Politics: Pol psychology
Are conservatives just born that way? By Ray Conlogue

Economics: How can I cut taxes? Let me count the ways
Election courtship, Harper style By Ellen Russell

Contrarian: A convenient untruth
Charting the rise of environmental “declinism” By Andrew Potter

FICTION & POETRY

Walking Along Steeles at Midnight Fiction by Sara Heinonen

Three poems Poetry by Clarice Eckford A Yellow Book Sits Beside Us. We Must Not Look In It. It Frightens Us.
Childhood
Pigeons (1)
Pigeons (2)

Two poems Poetry by David O’Meara Café in Bodrum
The Old Year

ARTS & IDEAS

Profile: Shake ’n’ quake
Art that’s a disaster waiting to happen By Nadja Sayej

Film: Braving it by bike
By Ron Nurwisah

Clothes: Facing the facts
By Tania Tabar

Painting: Art for war’s sake By Derek Rosin

Disaster reads: Disaster-themed books reviewed
Your Secrets Sleep with Me, by Darren O’Donnell
Review by Ron Nurwisah
Falsework, by Gary Geddes
Review by Sarah Greene
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami
Review by Tania Tabar

Web: You have one new death notification
Social networking: it’s not just for the living anymore By Chandler Levack

Film: Watch and learn
When it comes to green cinema, action beats aesthetics By Dorothy Woodend

Books: True confessions
Günter Grass and Jan Wong spill their beans By John Degen

Then & now: Was the grass always greener?
Lawn care through the ages By Lynn Cunningham

Letters to the editor



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