Editor’s Note
Michael Ignatieff begins his recent memoir with a meditation on citizenship in which he writes that the true patriot is obliged to acknowledge “the dark with the light.” It is …
Read MoreMarch 2010
Gary Stephen Ross on the clichés and realities of Vancouver; Naheed Mustafa dines with families in Afghanistan; Marian Botsford Fraser profiles Renée Acoby and the troubling conditions in Canada’s penal system for women; Robert Fulford on a weight loss program for men; fiction by Sarah Selecky…
Real Magic
At a special weight loss program for men, the author discovers that the only way to stop overeating is to start believing
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Does Canada’s Penal System Create Dangerous Offenders?
Only two women have been labelled dangerous offenders in Canada. Could Renée Acoby be the third?
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Star-Crossed
Science fiction contains worlds of wonder, but without love it’s lonely in space
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The Unsporting Event
Do the Paralympic Games encourage athletes to win big by aiming low?
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Bird Calling
Captivated by an endangered avian species, the former director of the Calgary Zoo becomes the world’s foremost expert in its propagation
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Law of the Jungle
A new free trade deal implicates Canada in Peru’s Indian Problem
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A Tale of Two Cities
The Vancouver you see, and the one you don’t
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Three Meals in Afghanistan
In cities and villages alike, a country seeking change clings tightly to its past
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