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Back to rehab

Editor’s note by Jessica Johnston [Read more]

Look back, Jack

With its exclusive fixation on winning more seats, the NDP has sacrificed the opportunity to build a truly progressive movement. At the 75th anniversary of the CCF, James Laxer argues that to save the present we need to remember the past
By James Laxer [Read more]

Girls gone wild. So?

With stars such as Amy Winehouse splashed across tabloid covers, racing toward early graves, it's easy to think they're stupid and sick. But, as Megan Griffith-Greene argues, there's something subversive about women who won't behave
By Megan Griffith-Greene [Read more]

The addict's last refuge

A unique facility on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast may offer a key to treating heroin addiction
By Peter Tupper [Read more]

There will be blood

It's Calgary Stampede time again - the annual celebration of the traditional cowboy life. But the history of Canada's Wild West reads very differently than the festival's romanticized fable
By Colin Snowsell [Read more]

THIS & THAT

Profile: If you build it, green will come
Sustainable building program hits the nail on the head By Jesse McLean

Easily missed: Dam Canadians
China's destructive Three Gorges project has links to home By Rosalyn Yake

List: Seven ways to get off the bottle
By Melissa Wilson

Whatever happened to: P3s? When private met public
The evolution of a great debate By Amber Dowling

Argument: Kicking the grass addiction
Why it's time to cut the lawn out of our lives By Megan Griffith-Greene

Economics: Beware the good old days
The welfare state's past isn't the key to its future By Ellen Russell

Politics: Franken-Steyn's monster
Uncovering the consequences of "free" speech By Donald Gutstein

Etiquette: I regret to inform you...
Apologies without action are sorry indeed By Heather Mallick

FICTION & POETRY

Why the Psychiatrist laughed Fiction by Karl Jirgens

Four poems Poetry by Ally Fleming C Squared
All postcards feature the CN Tower
Here hold this frayed wire
Preparations

ARTS & IDEAS

Profile: This land is his land
One man's art trumps the oil that lies beneath it By Amy Fung

Comics: DIY strip show
By Jordan Himelfarb

Writing: A never-ending short story
By Jeff Nield

Read This: TeaTime
by stef lenk
Review by Tara Quinn

Books: Kill your babies beautifully
On Michael Ondaatje's fetish for suffering By John Degen

Film: Notes from the underground
In defence of fantasy and horror cinema By Dorothy Woodend

Web: A stereotype of one's own
Why it's safe for white folks to laugh at themselves By Chandler Levack

Then & now: Kicking it old school
Time travels on the wagon By Lynn Cunningham

Letters to the editor

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