Issues
June 2008
Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Wes Tyrell.
Wes Tyrell is a Toronto-based illustrator/cartoonist. His work has appeared in Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, Dogs in Canada and Surfing Life, online at The Huffington Post and internationally on the BBC’s “Secret of Drawing.” When not drawing, Wes fills his life with his partner, Coco, her son, Luca, and Lamont, the French bulldog. You can contact Wes at www.westyrell.com.
Politics as Spectacle
Can Brangelina and Bono really change the public sphere, or just make it glitzier?
Mark Fried
Do Genetics Really Tell The Tale?
Boys who underachieve do well. Girls who do well underachieve. Why?
Anne Innis DaggMétis Imposter
A white Ontarian assumed Métis identity and convinced many, including himself
Mike EvansRavines and Reality
A bumbling narrator searches for the dark and telling moment in his past
Marianne Apostolides
Uganda's Endless War
Zealotry, child soldiers and the deeper roots of Joseph Kony’s 21-year rebellion
Blake Lambert
Borderline Differences
How Canada and the United States treat their sexually diverse citizens
Paul CadarioWhere Books and Business Meet
Global publishers flock each year to a seven-centuries-old institution in Germany
Cynthia Good
What Does an Indian Look Like?
A massive study chronicles Native representations on Canadian television
Yvette NolanOlympic Dreams and Fairy Tales
How will Canada’s Olympians acquit themselves in Beijing?
Douglas Brown