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Enough Heat to Melt the Ice

A new generation of novels about hockey finds the action away from the rink

City Limits

That shrinking feeling

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Issues

June 2009

Illustrations in this issue by Kate Wilson Kate Wilson is a visual artist and founding member of the Toronto-based arts organization Persona Volare.

The Ugly Canadian

Forget middle power. Forget model citizen. We’re becoming one of the bad kids on the block

Amir Attaran

Trial by Anecdote

A controversial polemicist takes on Canada's commitment to human rights

Mark J. Freiman

Creating Another Einstein

The money and intrigue behind Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute

Sheilla Jones

Eat, Worship, Fear, Coddle

How do we balance the contradictions in our attitudes toward animals?

J. E. Chamberlin

Poles Never Play Cricket in Summer

A Montreal-based Scotsman follows his passion through the former USSR

Charles Wilkins

The Ever-Expanding City

How can city-regions govern themselves when they keep on growing?

Joe Berridge

The Road to Hell

A Canadian journalist wonders if aid workers are just new colonialists

Ron Stang

Voices Unheard

Letters and fragmented stories create an intriguing tale

Marianne Apostolides

Homage or Hoax?

The perils of reconstruction, from Aswan to Warsaw

Norman Ravvin

Tough Times

Two books put capitalism and its promises on the hot seat

Bruce Little

Routing Tokenism

A book on diversity hiring takes a constructive and persuasive approach

Reg Whitaker

"This Dreadful Vice"

Is it gambling or government addiction to gambling that’s the problem?

W. A. Bogart

The Value of the Seas

If global oceans stay unappreciated, humanity will pay

U. R. Sumaila