December/January 2006

"Clean the air! clean the sky! wash the wind!" - T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

December/January 2006

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The Eyes of the Tigers

by Sarah Dobbs

mulaittivu—Shortly after the tsunami demolished much of the coast, beneath the shade of coconut trees, Regita…[more]

Jackie

by Colin McAdam

I made a girlfriend a while ago. String, wax, some chemicals.…[more]

Water to Burn

by Arno Kopecky

Iceland’s experiment with hydrogen points toward an oil-free world.…[more]

Funny Farms

by Julie Traves

With the family farm suffering, some enterprising growers are counting on “agritourism” to bring in revenue…[more]

The Greater Goal

by Natalie Alcoba

freetown—On a dusty pitch, on the edge of one of the poorest countries in the world, a one-legged man is…[more]

Tea of Tranquility

by John DeMont

halifax—I’m a coffee drinker of the four-cups-a-day, black-no-sugar variety. But that wasn’t what…[more]

Literary Landscapes: A Novel Approach

by Charles Foran

On the road with Noah Richler…[more]

Addicted to Dylan

by Jeff Wells

How many songs can one fan download before the music blows his mind?…[more]

America the Beautiful

by Don Gillmor

My first memory of America is driving through the Black Hills of South Dakota on a hot August day in a black Chevrolet Corvair without air conditioning... …[more]

Schooling: Repeat After Me

by Ken Alexander

My first teaching experience was in the late 1980s at Westwood Secondary School, located north of Toronto’s…[more]

All they wanted was to slow the pace of development in their territory. But by the time their 254-day sit-in concluded, the elders of Telegraph Creek had reshaped the Tahltan Nation and inspired native groups across British Columbia.…[more]