Inside the May 2013 Issue
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Demand Better
Fixated on energy supply, from wind to oil sands, most policy makers ignore our greenest opportunities.
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Decline of the Downtown Elite?
A review of The Big Shift: The Seismic Change in Canadian Politics, Business and Culture and What It Means for Our Future by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson.
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Eating and Surviving
A review of Consumed: Sustainable Food for a Finite Planet by Sarah Elton.
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What's Happened to CanLit?
In classrooms today, cultural nationalism seems to be a non-starter.
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Editor's Note
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Buy American
A review of Banking on America: How TD Bank Rose to the Top and Took on the U.S.A. by Howard Green.
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The Rite of Spring at 100
With a century’s perspective, does Stravinsky’s work still seem pioneering?
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Exporting Dispossession?
A review of Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for the World’s Mining Industries by Alain Deneault and William Sacher.
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Defender of the Church
A review of Soldier of Christ: The Life of Pope Pius XII by Robert A. Ventresca.
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Water Runs in Ancestral Lines
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The Telling Stream
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fat rain
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Ceol na Mara [Music of the Sea]
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Equine Tide
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Fire haiku
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Creative Crimes
A review of The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud.
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Lament for Rosedale
A review of Mount Pleasant by Don Gillmor.
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Minor Hockey as Big Business
A review of Selling the Dream: How Hockey Parents and Their Kids Are Paying the Price for Our National Obsession by Ken Campbell with Jim Parcels.
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Patriation Myth
A review of Canada’s Constitutional Revolution by Barry L. Strayer.
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The Overlooked Majority
A review of A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland During the First World War by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw, editors.
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Resuscitating the Working Class
A review of Raising the Workers’ Flag: The Workers’ Unity League of Canada, 1930–1936 by Stephen L. Endicott.
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Den of Religiosity
A review of Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City by Guy Delisle.
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A Much Less Secret Service
A review of Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America by Reg Whitaker, Gregory S. Kealey and Andrew Parnaby.
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Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Oleg Portnoy.
Oleg Portnoy is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer from Toronto. His illustration work has received recognition from American Illustration, Society of Illustrators West, 3X3 Illustration, CMYK Magazine and Creative Quarterly.
Online Originals
Buying up the Free Press
A review of Cross-Media Ownership and Democratic Practice in Canada: Content-Sharing and the Impact of New Media by Walter C. Soderlund, Colette Brin, Lydia Miljan and Kai Hildebrandt
A Beltway Education
A review of Patriots by David Frum
Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan
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