June 2006
Brighter Lights, Bigger Cities
by Alan Broadbent
Cities are the bloated elephants in Stephen Harper’s Cabinet room. Will he have the courage to look them in the eye?Photography by Eamon Mac Mahon
National Affairs
A House Half Built
by Roy J. Romanow
A former premier argues that Canada must return to its nation-building roots
Society
The American Gigantic
by Mark Kingwell
Has the dream of freedom and opportunity declined into a hopeless pathology?
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Books
The Possibility of a Pornographic Moralist
by Randy Boyagoda
Caustic, excessive, self-loathing French author Michel Houellebecq skewers Western civilization
Books
Graphic Truths
by Lea Zeltserman
Once pure fantasy, the comic book has become a powerful way of portraying reality
Imaginings
BloodFest ‘06: The May 24th Blackfly Rally
by Marni Jackson
If you can’t beat ‘em, bite ‘em
Travel
Expect Delays
by Jaret Belliveau
The June 2006 cover image is from a photo essay, recounting the cross-Canada trip of a photographer and his brother after their mother’s death. » View Photo Gallery «
Fiction
What He Saw
by Michael Winter
Be that way then, she said. And wished she hadn’t. She touched the straps of her bikini and walked down to the
Letters
June 2006
The Family Doctor Crisis
I read Alastair Brown’s excellent article on the challenges of the rural physician (
Detail
Postmodern Choirboy
by Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay on his elegies for a lost natural self
Anthropology
Nicaragua’s Crazy Sickness
by Nicola Ross
An indigenous community grapples with a mysterious ailment
International Security
Old Hands on Deck
by Hugh Graham
Could the United States’ Arabists provide an exit strategy from Iraq?
Sightings
The Shrinking News
by Ken Alexander
On their best days, newspaper editorialists analyze government policy statements for what they hide and reveal, beat back
