January–February 2011
Featured Articles
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Relentless Implacability
A review of Ken McGoogan’s How the Scots Invented Canada
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Canada As Colonial Power
A review of Todd Gordon’s Imperialist Canada
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A Blitzkrieg of Soccer
A review of Dave Bidini’s Home and Away: In Search of Dreams at the Homeless World Cup of Soccer
Tom Pokinko is an artist, graphic designer, illustrator and doctoral student based in Ottawa. His clients include the United Nations Association in Canada, Blue Metropolis, The Progressive, Maisonneuve Magazine and Goodenough College. He is working on a book of urban sketches from London, Ottawa and Montreal. http://www.tompokinko.com.
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Relentless Implacability
A review of Ken McGoogan’s How the Scots Invented Canada
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Canada As Colonial Power
A review of Todd Gordon’s Imperialist Canada
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A Blitzkrieg of Soccer
A review of Dave Bidini’s Home and Away: In Search of Dreams at the Homeless World Cup of Soccer
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The Court Jester
A review of Peter C. Newman’s Heroes: Canadian Champions, Dark Horses and Icons and Mavericks: Canadian Rebels, Renegades and Anti-Heroes
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National Archives Blues
Is a precious Canadian asset being digitized to death?
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Fairy Tales for Men
A review of Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin, edited by David Church, and Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin, by William Beard
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Dispatch from Colorado Springs
A Canadian resident learns what happens when the town council calls the bluff of the lower-taxes movement
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Back to the Garden
A review of Random Acts of Culture: Reclaiming Art and Community in the 21st Century, by Clarke Mackey
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Solstice
A poem
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Reading You
A poem
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Rebuilding the Guitar
A poem
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Fictional Fetish
A review of Dahanu Road, by Anosh Irani
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Northern Treasure
A review of Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike, by Charlotte Gray
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In the Citadel’s Shadow
A review of the updated edition Halifax: Warden of the North, by Thomas H. Raddall, with new chapters by Stephen Kimber
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A Patient Prophet Speaks
A review of Becoming Canada: Our Story, Our Politics, Our Future, Ken Dryden