Nora Underwood delves into what neuroscience tells
us about the teenage brain; Andrew Nikiforuk questions Alberta’s
dependence on VLT gambling revenues; Gerald
Caplan argues that the West remains as complicit as ever in the plight
of modern-day Africa; a photo essay by Sarah Hughes depicts women in
their “comfortable and safe” outfits and their “attractive
and sexy” outfits; fiction by Tobias Wolff; and more
Marci McDonald explores Stephen Harper’s connections
to the hard religious right; Andrew Clark mourns tennis’s lost
art of rushing the net; Taylor Owen and Ben Kiernan provide an exclusive
look at the shocking intensity of the US bombing campaign in Cambodia;
Debbie Tacium Ladry examines our inconsistent relationship with our food
and pet animals; fiction by Peter Behrens; and more
Allan Gregg wonders what Alberta will do with its
newfound oil money; Alison Gillmor asks why the constructed language
Esperanto hasn’t caught on; Monte Paulsen discusses the findings
of a Canadian satellite telescope and the possibility of discovering
other Earth-like planets; Deborah Campbell looks at a rapidly modernizing
and often misperceived Iran; and more
Memoirs by David Gilmour, Gail Gallant, and Xujun
Eberlein; poetry by Gary Barwin, Michael Turner, Stuart Ross, and Rosemarie
Waldrop; Tom Fennell sounds alarm bells over the Canadian government’s
limiting of civil liberties in the wake of 9/11; Adnan Khan visits with
the nomadic Kuchi tribe of Afghanistan; Michael Posner charts the importing
of a hallucinogenic plant used by South American shaman healers; and
more
Roy Romanow argues that Canada must return to its
nation-building roots; Alan Broadbent asks if Stephen Harper’s
federal government will intervene in the fates of Canadian cities; Mark
Kingwell analyzes what has become of the American dream; Nicola Ross
looks at a mysterious mental illness appearing among Nicaragua’s
Miskitu Indians; fiction by Michael Winter; and more
James Laxer examines the NDP’s
joining with the Conservatives to attack the Liberals; Charles Montgomery
describes the threat posed by missionaries and modernization to the culture
of the Solomon Islands’ Lau Lagoon clans; Chris Koentges considers
a star chef’s move to a casual-gourmet restaurant chain; David
Fulton reports on Europe’s efforts to repel African refugees; and more
David Berlin examines the uncertain future of religious
Zionism in Israel; Veronica Cusack questions the role of Canadaian “soft
power” in Afghanistan; Christopher Dewdney explores our relationship
with time; Ellen Vanstone travels to the island of Dominica in search
of the author Jean Rhys; Mark A. Cheetham examines our concept of nature
and our consumption of art that depicts it; and more
Allan Gregg calls for change to Canada’s model
of multiculturalism; Sean Maloney and Tom Fennell argue that Canada’s
operations in Afghanistan should be recognized as a war; Chris Dewdney
encounters an owl and ponders living in the flow of time; Alison Gillmor
argues that repression of emotions is back in vogue; fiction by Randy
Boyagoda; and more
Gwynne Dyer fears that bird flu will devastate
on the scale of the 1918 flu pandemic; Arno Kopecky looks at the possibility
of genetic doping in the Olympics; Pedro Sánchez and Gord Westmacott
ponder the future of leftist South America; Alex Mazer examines the thoughts
of Michael Ignatieff; Randy Boyagoda reviews a damning biography of Mao;
fiction by Adam Gilders; and more
Arno Kopecky reports on Iceland’s move away
from oil and toward geothermal and hydrogen power; Michael Enright learns
to skate at sixty; Don Gillmor reflects on the decay of the American
mystique; Monte Paulsen tells the story of a group of Tahltan Nation
elders in B.C. who made waves by staging a sit-in; Philip Berger shares
correspondence he wrote while working at an AIDS clinic
in Lesotho; fiction by Colin McAdam; and more
