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Down to Crown

What did the viceregal ever do for us?

Adam Dodek

Positively Shady

The glamorous activism of M.A.C Cosmetics

Elspeth H. Brown

Minor Hockey as Big Business

The disturbing shift from kids’ game to pricey investment

Sheema Khan
Issues

March 2009

Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Tom Pokinko. Tom Pokinko is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Montreal. His clients include the United Nations Association in Canada, Maisonneuve Magazine, The Progressive and various Canadian universities. His work can be viewed at www.tompokinko.com. Tom is also pursuing a PhD at McGill University.

The New Canadian Establishment

How will life change when the West takes over?

Peter C. Newman

Anyone for Deficits?

A short history of the D-word in Canada’s development

Timothy Lewis

Dying in Hell

Canada’s Great War comes alive on film and in print

Jack Mitchell

George Grant and the Jews

A colleague accuses the nationalist icon of anti-Semitism

Ramsay Cook

The Legless Castaway

One of Nova Scotia’s most enduring puzzles, speculatively retold

Noah Richler

Blowing the Whistle

Two academics take on the Canadian eliteswho profit from aboriginal poverty

Robert McGhee

Violence and Beauty

Tender insight makes this tale of family cruelty bearable

Marian Botsford Fraser

Between Two Worlds

Manitoba and Lancashire are the poles in a tale of rupture and recovery

Erika Ritter

Canada's Global Choices

Do we embrace the new world order or stick with Washington?

David Crane

A Stoppage of the Light

Recollections of a keen observer’s summer in a cemetery

Joe Fiorito

Arcadia in Peril

Defending idyllic rural communities takes more than a sense of place

Paul Wilson

Making a Multiversity

Two books evoke York University’s unique and turbulent past

Paul Stortz

A Happy Marriage of Convenience

The Quebec-Canada relationship works because of luck and pragmatism

Philip Resnick