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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Amanda Perry

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

Sujit Choudhry

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Stephen Marche
Issues

November 2008

Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Sylvia Nickerson Since graduating from art school in 2001, Sylvia Nickerson has designed books, illustrated for magazines, tutored mathematics, worked as an arts administrator in the Canadian book publishing industry and completed an M.A. in the history of science. Her illustrations have been published in The Coast, The New Quarterly, Carousel Magazine, Briarpatch Magazine, The Dominion and The Globe and Mail. To see more of her art go to www.sylvianickerson.com.

Our Canadian Republic

Do we display too much deference to authority—or not enough?

Christopher Moore

Angry Mister Nice Guy

The last prime minister’s memoir displays contradiction, not candour

John Gray

What Do We Owe?

An exploration of pacts with the Devil and other transactions

Conrad Black

The Karaoke Classics

A view from inside China’s Confucian revival

Timothy Cheek

Love-Making through Word-Making

Elizabeth Bowen’s letters and Charles Ritchie’s diaries create a passionate mix

Suanne Kelman

Beyond the Counting House

How Canada developed a system of nationalaccounts to explain our economy

Andrew Sharpe

History Etched in Stone

A new book takes readers on a tour of last resting places in Canada

Marian Botsford Fraser

Eliminating the Caboose

Technological advances need to override nostalgia and ideology in our healthcare system

Michael Decter

Tabloid Science

Does a personal approach to scientists’ lives help explain quantum physics?

Mélanie Frappier

The Cree in Crisis

A novel laments the loss of traditions from one generation to the next

Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein

Cross-Racial Tragedy

A white writer uses an incendiary Native event purely as backdrop

Richard Wagamese

Imperial America

Two Canadian authors examine our over-reaching neighbour

Peter Seixas

Swiftian Wit and Zen Insight

The monk Thomas Merton receives a love letter from a Canadian adorer

Michael W. Higgins

Women on the High Seas

Another study adds to the little-known historyof Canadian female occupations

Janet Guildford

Spiritual Dissent

Falun Gong, the Chinese Communist Party and their apocalyptic struggle for China

Jeremy Paltiel

An Informed Citizenry?

Expanding media in China does not necessarily mean a challenge to power

Bernie Michael Frolic