Warren Cariou

Canada’s west is booming in a way that has not been seen in at least a generation, and there is every indication that this shift in economic clout will be with us for a number of years to come. It may even be true that the balance of political power is changing from east to west on a long-term…

In late August of 2005, the London Zoo staged a brief but very popular exhibit that consisted of eight scantily clad human beings displayed in a zoo enclosure that might once have housed orangutans or bears. Billed as “the world’s first ever human zoo exhibit,” the display was intended to turn the tables on the viewing public and to teach spectators “that the human is just another primate,” as spokesperson Polly Wills…