Ivor Shapiro considers a radical proposal for lowering
health care costs: the rationing of treatment; Shawn Blore investigates
bloody conflict over a rich deposit of diamonds in the Amazon; John Trotter
photographs the curiously indistinguishable Republican and Democratic
National Conventions; David Hayes looks back at the controversial history
of the CRTC; poetry by Lynn Crosbie, Betsy
Warland, and Christopher Dewdney; and more
Marci McDonald reports on the politics of the “Calgary
School” and its ties to Stephen Harper’s Conservatives; Michael
Adams and Stephen Handelman present parallel arguments predicting the
presidential victories of Bush and Kerry; Shelly Grimson shares thirteen
photos of Canadian poets, taken by him in the 1970s; Gerald Caplan examines
our failure to prevent genocides like those in Darfur and Rwanda; fiction
by Jonathan Goldstein; and more
Andrew Mitrovica tells the story of a CSIS spy
who infiltrated Canada’s neo-Nazi movement and was later outed
in the press; Tariq Ali looks at the madness of the Iraq War and the “clash
of civilizations” it has helped bring into reality; portrait photographer
Jill Greenberg takes startling photos of non-human primates; Gail Singer
goes to Scotland for her first stag hunt; poetry by Nicole Brossard,
Derek Beaulieu, and Robert Kroetsch; and more
Fiction by Guy Vanderhaeghe, Banana Yoshimoto, and
Damon Galgut; poetry by Billy Collins, M. NourbeSe Philip, Di Brandt,
and Marilyn Hacker; plus “flash” fiction by Camilla Gibb,
Thomas King, Edward Riche, and Corey Frost; Bill Cameron argues that
the unclarified legal status of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is only hurting
the cause of justice in cases like that of Omar Khadr; Thaddeus Holownia
photographs Walden Pond; and more
Clive Thompson explores the emerging scholarship around
the economics of virtual worlds; Paul Webster asks if Canada will be
complicit in US efforts to weaponize space; Larry Krotz reports on a
man filing suit against his native Iran for torture he was subjected
to while imprisoned; Bruce Grierson discusses the story and legacy of
his grandfather, a Presbyterian evangelist stationed in early twentieth-century
Korea; and more
Andrea Mandel-Campbell describes economic upheaval
driven by the discovery of a rich diamond mine in the Northwest Territories;
Mark Witten looks at promising research into the neuroscience of depression;
Michael Adams discusses the divergence of Canadian and American values,
and the tricky balancing act of managing Canada-US relations; fiction
by Frances Itani; and more
Rita Leistner travels through war zones with a squadron
the led the US Army’s ground invasion into Iraq; Don Gillmor analyzes
a wave of attention-grabbing architecture emblematized by Daniel Libeskind’s
crystalline ROM expansion; David Berlin
considers proposed solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and
finds cause for hope in the Geneva Accord; Pico Iyer visits a Bolivia
caught between its past and its future; and more
