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Rethinking the Depression PAGE 29 $6.50 Vol. 22, No. 5 June 2014 Barry Kiefl Survival Strategy Can the CBC be saved? Ken Dryden Bridget Stutchbury Matthew Mendelsohn What MPs think about Birds of many feathers The East wants in ALSO ALSO ISSUE IN THIS IN THIS Parliament PLUS: NON-FICTION Tony Burman on social media and journalism + David Malone on powerful civil servants + Yvette Nolan on Canadian ghosts + Patrick Luciani on the idiot behind the wheel + Robin Ganev on olives in human history + Kwame McKenzie on tracking the science of science + Publications Mail Agreement #40032362 Stephen Kimber on a thwarted Caribbean coup + Judy Stoffman on Canadian art’s hidden patron Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to LRC, Circulation Dept. FICTION Sandra Djwa reviews Local Customs by Audrey Thomas + Jack Kirchhoff reviews Frog PO Box 8, Station K Toronto, ON M4P 2G1 Music by Emma Donoghue POETRY Seymour Mayne + Daniel Goodwin + Brenda Sciberras New from University of Toronto Press Marshall McLuhan and Copyfight On Being Rich and Poor Northrop Frye The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Christianity in a Time of Economic Apocalypse and Alchemy Reform Globalization by B.W. Powe by Blayne Haggart by Jacques Ellul; edited by Willem H. Vanderburg This book presents the lives and works of Copyfight examines the 1996 World two of Canada’s central cultural figures, Intellectual Property Organization On Being Rich and Poor is an Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye. internet treaties from negotiation to unprecedented look at how one of the B.W. Powe combines the philosophical implementation. twentieth century’s foremost thinkers grappled with the issues of wealth, hallmarks of McLuhan’s “The medium is ‘This book is a must-read for those seeking poverty, and inequality in the modern age. the message” and Frye’s “the great code” insight into the forces that shape our to offer a new alchemy of their thought. digital environment.’ - Michael Geist, University of Ottawa Fields of Fire Innovating in Urban Civil Justice, Privatization, The Canadians in Normandy: Second Economies and Democracy Edition Economic Transformation in Canadian by Trevor C.W. Farrow by Terry Copp City-Regions In this book, Trevor Farrow highlights This new edition of Copp’s best-selling, edited by David A. 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Stephen Kimber PROOFREADERS 19 Women on the Margins Heather Schultz, Rob Tilley 6 Parliamentary Discontent A review of Frog Music, by Emma Donoghue A review of Tragedy in the Commons: Former RESEARCH Jack Kirchhoff Rob Tilley Members of Parliament Speak Out about Canada’s Failing Democracy, by Alison Loat and 20 On Treacherous Ground EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Clare Gibbons Michael MacMillan An essay DESIGN Ken Dryden Barry Kiefl James Harbeck 8 Creating New Ghosts 23 Fifth Business in the Art World ADVERTISING/SALES A review of Canadian Gothic: Literature, A review of Harold Mortimer-Lamb: The Art Michael Wile History and the Spectre of Self-Invention, by Lover, by Robert Amos [email protected] Cynthia Sugars Judy Stoffman DIRECTOR, SPECIAL PROJECTS Michael Booth Yvette Nolan 24 The East Wants In DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT 9 Risky Driving A review of Equal as Citizens: The Tumultuous Michael Stevens A review of No Accident: Eliminating Injury and and Troubled History of a Great Canadian Idea, EDUcaTIONAL OUTReacH COORDINATOR Death on Canadian Roads, by Neil Arason by Richard Starr Mary Kim Patrick Luciani Matthew Mendelsohn PUBLISHERS Alastair Cheng 11 Timeless Flight 26 Top Dog at External [email protected] A review of Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology A review of O.D. 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