Back Issues
November 2011
Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Tom Pokinko.
Tom Pokinko is an artist, illustrator and doctoral student based in Ottawa. A contributor to the LRC since 2003, Tom specializes in pen and ink drawings and digital prints. His other clients include Oxford University Press, United Nations Association in Canada, Blue Metropolis Literary Festival, The Progressive Magazine and various Canadian universities. For more information, see www.tompokinko.com and meanderink.blogspot.com, and follow Tom on Twitter: www.twitter.com/tompokinko.
Afghanistan’s Price
By downplaying PTSD, our government makes soldiers and their families bear the costs of war
Alison HowellHigh Noon at the CRTC
New in town, players like Netflix pose a fundamental challenge to Canadian content regulations
Simon DoyleWalking Across Canada
In the wake of the Great War, five plucky Maritimers made it from sea to sea
James RootsThe Fighting Faithful
Is there still a place for religion in a secular, modern military?
Jonathan Malloy
An Editor’s Delicate Art
Doug Gibson worked with many of the best authors CanLit ever produced
John BurnsChildbirth, Cash and Culture
An illuminating comparison of two surprisingly similar diasporas
Sean T. Cadigan
The Real Dope
A new book explodes many myths about the Canadian healthcare system
Gregory P. Marchildon
Canada on Canvas
A major survey captures four and a half centuries of landscape painting
Georgiana Uhlyarik
Brotherhood of the Dispossessed
A reporter’s close-up focus on young Muslim jihadists world-wide
Michael Bell