November 2011
Featured Articles
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Afghanistan’s Price
By downplaying PTSD, our government makes soldiers and their families bear the costs of war
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Dark Notes in Nazi Berlin
A review of Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues
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High Noon at the CRTC
New in town, players like Netflix pose a fundamental challenge to Canadian content regulations
Tom Pokinko is an artist, illustrator and doctoral student based in Ottawa. A contributor to the LRC since 2003, Tom specializes in pen and ink drawings and digital prints. His other clients include Oxford University Press, United Nations Association in Canada, Blue Metropolis Literary Festival, The Progressive Magazine and various Canadian universities. For more information, see http://www.tompokinko.com and meanderink.blogspot.com, and follow Tom on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tompokinko.
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Afghanistan’s Price
By downplaying PTSD, our government makes soldiers and their families bear the costs of war
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Dark Notes in Nazi Berlin
A review of Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues
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High Noon at the CRTC
New in town, players like Netflix pose a fundamental challenge to Canadian content regulations
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Walking Across Canada
A review of The Amazing Foot Race of 1921: Halifax to Vancouver in 134 Days, by Shirley Jean Roll Tucker
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The Fighting Faithful
A review of Religion in the Ranks: Belief and Religious Experience in the Canadian Forces, by Joanne Benham Rennick
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An Editor’s Delicate Art
A review of Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau and Others, by Douglas Gibson
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Childbirth, Cash and Culture
A review of Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration, 1815–1914, by Donald Harman Akenson
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The Real Dope
A review of Health Care in Canada: A Citizen’s Guide to Policy and Politics, Katherine Fierlbeck
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Wee Tea
A poem
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Solace
A poem
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Exactly
A poem
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Escape to Purgatory
A review of The Free World, by David Bezmozgis
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“I Didn’t Do It”
A review of Justice Miscarried: Inside Wrongful Convictions in Canada, by Hélèna Katz
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A Large But Poor Economy
A review of The Destiny of Canada: Macdonald, Laurier and the Election of 1891, by Christopher Pennington, and Canada 1911: The Decisive Election That Shaped the Country, by Patrice Dutil and David MacKenzie
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Brotherhood of the Dispossessed
A review of Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone, by Michelle Shephard