Mitch Miyagawa studies Canada’s penchant for
official apologies; Rachel Pulfer examines Sherritt International’s
dealings with communist Cuba; Timothy Taylor walks the pilgrim’s
trail in Spain; Mary Rogan investigates the doctor-patient sexual abuse
policy of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; fiction
by André Alexis; and more
Roger Martin reveals the disappearance of public
education investment in Canada; Alex Hutchinson ponders the dangers of
widespread GPS use; Carol Shaben investigates
the loosening of airline safety standards in Canada; a photo essay by
Teun Voeten and Arno Kopecky documents Mexico’s drug war; fiction
by Steven Heighton; and more
Chris Turner explains how humanity can adapt to
devastated environments; Christopher Shulgan traces the decline of auto
workers’ unions in Windsor; Deborah Campbell weighs the journalistic
promise of Al Jazeera English; Lynn Cunningham writes a memoir on raising
a grandson with fetal alcohol syndrome; fiction by Lee Henderson; and
more
Helen Humphreys reenacts the Battle of the Plains
of Abraham; Timothy Taylor describes the efforts of progressive Sikh
youth in their communities; Charles Foran visits the settings of Alice
Munro’s life and books; John MacLachlan Gray gets a hip replacement;
fiction by Zsuzsi Gartner; and more
New fiction by Stephen Marche, Lee Henderson, Rivka
Galchen, and Joseph Boyden; John Lorinc examines the recovery efforts
of Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney; Christopher Frey describes the
rise of Pentecostalism in Africa; Nick Fraser analyzes the value of European
unity; and more
Monte Paulsen details Canada’s failure to
develop high-speed rail; Chris Turner considers geologist David Hughes’s
argument that we are about to run out of fossil fuels; a photo essay
by Balazs Gardi depicts life in wartime Afghanistan; Rick Salutin explores
the Haida giving tradition of the potlatch; fiction by Lisa Moore; and
more
Don Gillmor explains the enduring appeal of Harlequin
romances; Susan Harada profiles Canada’s first female Chief Justice,
Beverly McLachlin; Jina Moore relates the firsthand account of Alice
Mukarurinda, survivor of the Hutu-Tutsi conflict in Rwanda; Daniel Stoffman
analyzes Canada’s susceptibility to terrorist attacks; fiction
by Craig Boyko; and more
Mark Kingwell channels Barack Obama, America’s
philosopher president; Alex Hutchinson profiles Neil Turok, executive
director of Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics;
Louie Palu meditates on the closing of Guantánamo Bay; Hal Niedzviecki
examines the growing trend of women exhibiting themselves online; fiction
by Helen Humphreys; and more
William Johnson considers Stephen Harper’s
rise to power; J. B. MacKinnon describes conservation efforts to recover
the population of the bolson tortoise; Peter Foster estimates how Adam
Smith would see the financial meltdown; Fred Weir studies the growth
of authoritarianism in post-Soviet Russia; fiction by David Bergen; and
more
Andrew Westoll ventures into La Negra mine in Bolivia’s
infamous Cerro Rico mountain; Nora Underwood studies the promise of urban
vertical farming; Robert Hough meets former tobacco farmers who have
started cultivating ginseng; Pasha Malla writes a screenplay for a hypothetical “film
for would-be immigrants”; fiction by Goran Simic; and more
