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FEATURES

Gifts that keep on giving

Editor’s note by Jessica Johnston [Read more]

Get your goat

Images of cute, cuddly animals have replaced sad-eyed children in the latest campaigns to market charitable giving to Africa. But what does it really mean to buy a village a goat?
By Claire Ward [Read more]

Libya, is it me you’re looking for?

An excerpt from The Sheikh’s Batmobile: In Pursuit of American Pop Culture in the Muslim World
By Richard Poplak [Read more]

Whose burden?

Two decades of government cuts to social spending have paralyzed the charities that Canada’s poor depend on for survival. But there is hope on the horizon
By Daniel Aldana Cohen [Read more]

Why won’t you let me play?

Is the Special Olympics discriminating against the kids it’s supposed to help?
By Lauren McKeon [Read more]


THIS & THAT

Profile: Farm folk, city folk
Urban agriculture: coming soon to a backyard near you? By Jessica Johnston

Easily missed: Downstream disease
Pollution may be causing high diabetes rates among Aboriginals By Graeme McElheran

WTF?: Be afraid of the dark

List: Five charities that are worth it
By Lindsay Kneteman

Graphic: Charity by the numbers
By Derek Rosin [Link opens PDF file]

Whatever happened to: Not discussion your wages? You’re so money
Gone are taboos around talking about wages By Tyler Olsen

Argument: Pay the writer!
Why Canada’s content producers need a union By Stephanie O’Hanley

Economics: Gimme shelter
Banks profit in good times, but in bad, we all share the pain By Ellen Russell

Politics: No biofoolin’
It may sound great, but ethanol is all politics By Zoe Cormier

Law: It’s a hard-knock life for…?
Why we’re surprised when babies are abandoned By Bob Tarantino

FICTION & POETRY

It’s easy to be a moralist when you’re ugly Fiction by Jon Paul Fiorentino

Four poems Poetry by Robert Earl Stewart Big Bad Bannock
Praying Mantis Bake Sale
Cento for a Rat-Packer
Uncle: Foresaken

Two poems Poetry by Laura Farina Twelve Lines for Spring
Fish

ARTS & IDEAS

Profile: Live from the North
Isuma.tv takes indigenous film online By Stephanie Silliker

Play: Street theatre
By Jessica Duffin Wolfe

Press: Basement sweet
By Ilana Stanger-Ross

Art: Shopdrop and roll By Kalli Anderson

Read This: A Week of This
by Nathan Whitlock
Review by J. Graham Lee

Books: Sex and the fortysomething
Stacey May Fowles’ free-love story puts things in perspective By John Degen

Television: How low can it go?
Reality TV turns 20 By Lisa Whittington-Hill

Web: One-blog wonder
How the internet has redefined the musical playing field By Chandler Levack

Then & now: Till death do they part
Weddings through the ages By Lynn Cunningham

Letters to the editor



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