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Summer 2004
Eco-Warrior Elizabeth May; PLUS: Jane Doe: What is a Rape Victim Supposed to Look Like?; Ann Hansen: From Direct Action to Prison Abolition; Lisa Rundle on Third-Wave Feminism and the Media; Will NAC Rise? Wild Women Expeditions Enjoys Surge; PVC, Pthalates Toxic to Women.
How to Save the World in Your Spare Time
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By:
Kate Heartfield
Elizabeth May is a tireless environmental activist and feminist. As executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada, she is in a unique situation to influence public policy. She held a public hunger strike on Parliament Hill to get Ottawa’s attention on the eco-disaster the Sydney tar ponds. A lawyer by trade, May is author of At the Cutting Edge, a Canadian primer on the environmental impact of current forestry practices, and of a lengthy essay called “How to be an Activist” (www.sierraclubofcanada.org). [more]
All That We Let In
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Indigo Girls
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Epic Records
Review by:
Cindy Filipenko
The Indigo Girls’ ninth studio album, All That We Let In, resonates with an unabashed hopefulness that reflects the continued political and personal maturation of Emily Sailers and Amy Ray. Featuring six songs by Sailers and five by Ray, this solid collection gives listeners what they’ve come to expect: smooth harmonies, excellent musicianship and inspirational lyrics.
Fans of the Georgia-based duo will find this recording strikingly similar in tone to 2002’s Become You—both thematically and musically. [more]
One Hundred Million Hearts
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Sook C. KongWorld War II is vexatious. It vexes those of us who lost much in that horrific carnage. It vexes a current generation of youth who have been de-historicized from that period.
It is difficult to write about the first war that ravaged Earth on a worldwide scale. Many have tried, some have succeeded. It is conscientious of Kerri Sakamoto to base her second novel on aspects of that war. A central site that serves various narrative functions in One Hundred Million Hearts is the Yakisuni Shrine in Tokyo. [more]
Hot Air Policy
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By:
Penni Mitchell
To hear the Liberals tell it, we should be quaking in our gumboots, our Birkenstocks, or our whirly girly flip-flops.
A very scary thing is in our midst.
The scary thing is not a shipping magnate with a scallywag’s reputation for business. It is not that the office of a former finance minister reportedly attempted to influence the awarding of federal research grants. It is not federal surpluses created on account of an Employment Insurance surplus engineered by disqualifying tens of thousands of workers from EI benefits. [more]
The Five Books Of Moses Lapinsky
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Cynthia CallahanMoses is the fictional author of a biography of his father, Sonny “The Charger” Lapinsky, from the immigrant Jewish neighbourhood of Kensington Market, Toronto. Sonny held the world middleweight title from 1948 to 1954. Moses’ need to research his father’s life in newspaper articles and interviews reflects the novel’s themes of guilt, loss and estrangement in two generations of a Jewish family.
Tulchinsky forms her novel by beginning with the tragic structure of one family’s life. [more]
Decomposing Maggie
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Karolle WallAnn Eriksson’s first novel, Decomposing Maggie, is as heart-wrenching as it is life- affirming. When Maggie’s dying husband expresses his final wish—“take me to the forest ... let me lie down and decompose”—she chooses instead to ease his pain with an overdose of morphine.
Upon his death, Maggie falls into a mourning and a guilt so deep that she pushes away her grieving children, her closest friend and a way of life that sustained her for years. She turns to collecting kelp, sea lettuce, fragments of shells and bits of driftwood from the more isolated beaches of Vancouver. [more]
