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Out of Place and Time

It’s still too often about elsewhere

Mobólúwajídìde D. Joseph

Skippy

A prime minister in the making

Jeffrey Simpson

Chancing to Rise

Our evolving relationship with China

Dan Dunsky
Issues

January | February 2016

Trevor Waurechen draws and paints and prints and cuts and renders and builds all sorts of things and pictures, but never as often as he would like. Take a look at what he has done at www.waurechen.com and for what he has not done, just close your eyes and imagine.

The Pelt Belt

How beavers helped build a nation

Jake MacDonald

Paper Hanging

Two accounts of the sweeping change in Canada’s newspaper industry

Paul Knox

They’re Still Missing

An insider’s account of the bungled hunt for Robert Pickton

Robert Matas

Flotsam & Jetsam

Franklin’s shipwreck and a modern controversy

Adriana Craciun

Serfing the Net

The material underside of the digital economy

Daniel Joseph

Government Inc.

A new book questions the efficacy of public-private partnerships

Michael Fenn

Run, Keita, Run

Lawrence Hill satirizes the senseless treatment of refugees

Ann Walmsley

Saskatchewan Journey

Diane Warren’s upside-down novel is peopled with vivid small-town characters

Susan Walker

Golden Routes

Canadian Pacific’s quest to create a tourist mecca

Valerie Knowles

We Have the Technology

Making the Senate relevant again

Hugh Segal

Kooks and Cretins

Could the office of mayor be hardwired for failure?

Ivor Tossell

Portrait of a Young Buck

Rapper Rich Terfry serves up a fantastical memoir of his early years

Stuart Thomson

Starchitect Saga

Two accounts chart the emergence of Frank Gehry’s genius

Martin Laflamme

Cross-Border Cowboy

Owen Wister’s The Virginian may have a real-life Canadian connection

Michael Dawe