April 16, 2010
Great Canadian Literary Hunt 2009: Dear Dave Bidini by Janette Platana
Editor’s note: We’re posting the winners of the 2009 Great Canadian Literary Hunt to promote the 2010 contest. Look for one new poem and short story each day the rest of this week. Enter today and you could be published in This Magazine, and win a cash prize of $750! Dear Dave Bidini, I hate hockey, but can we still be friends? As you can tell, I am a 15-year-old boy, and this is true. I lie on... [More >>]
April 16, 2010
Great Canadian Literary Hunt 2009: When the kids are fed by Kate Marshall Flaherty
Editor’s note: We’re posting the winners of the 2009 Great Canadian Literary Hunt to promote the 2010 contest. Look for one new poem and short story each day the rest of this week. Enter today and you could be published in This Magazine, and win a cash prize of $750! After the weeding and wilting, bean- snapping, brown-soap-and-vinegar’d bug bites; After the trip in a hayseed van to the co-op for... [More >>]
April 15, 2010
Great Canadian Literary Hunt 2009: Dear Monsters, Be Patient by Kyle Greenwood
Editor’s note: We’re posting the winners of the 2009 Great Canadian Literary Hunt to promote the 2010 contest. Look for one new poem and short story each day the rest of this week. Enter today and you could be published in This Magazine, and win a cash prize of $750! The news of your birth disturbed and excited the city. For weeks afterward, the grainy surveillance featured on local and national... [More >>]
April 15, 2010
Great Canadian Literary Hunt 2009: Discontent by Leslie Vryenhoek
Editor’s note: We’re posting the winners of the 2009 Great Canadian Literary Hunt to promote the 2010 contest. Look for one new poem and short story each day the rest of this week. Enter today and you could be published in This Magazine, and win a cash prize of $750! I’m addicted to the real estate guide, to paint chips and floor samples and airline seat sales. Slick magazines stack up, then slide... [More >>]
April 14, 2010
Great Canadian Literary Hunt 2009: A Place for Ships by Jimmy McInnes
Editor’s note: We’re posting the winners of the 2009 Great Canadian Literary Hunt to promote the 2010 contest. Look for one new poem and short story each day the rest of this week. Enter today and you could be published in This Magazine, and win a cash prize of $750! I am attempting to understand. Explosions are mere news flashes to me and not the prattlings of Saturday or Wednesday or Christmas.... [More >>]
April 14, 2010
Great Canadian Literary Hunt 2009: Unleashed by Sarah Fletcher
Editor’s note: We’re posting the winners of the 2009 Great Canadian Literary Hunt to promote the 2010 contest. Look for one new poem and short story each day the rest of this week. Enter today and you could be published in This Magazine, and win a cash prize of $750! Georgia says her mom put her on a leash when she was four and three quarters, and Georgia never let her forget it. Red leash—four... [More >>]
April 12, 2010
Postcard from El Salvador: Death at an election
A vandalized ARENA billboard in San Salvador. Photo by Luis Galdamez. On the night of March 15, 2009, I was surrounded by thousands of celebrating Salvadorans. The first left-wing president, Mauricio Funes of the FMLN, a left-wing political party, had just been elected and San Salvador was erupting into a sea of red. I had come to El Salvador to work as one of 5,000 election observers. The vote over,... [More >>]
March 2, 2010
How to bring democracy back to Alberta
There’s voter apathy and then there’s Alberta. In the 2008 provincial election, a mere 41 percent of eligible voters came out. The provincial Conservative government went on to claim a historic 11th straight victory, a win that Athabasca University history professor Alvin Finkel believes was the result of Albertans not believing that there’s a viable alternative to the Tories. So this past June,... [More >>]
March 1, 2010
Supervised injection sites work—but the feds still don’t get it
The evidence in favour of safe-injection sites is overwhelming, but the federal government appears determined to shut Insite down. Despite ongoing efforts by the Harper government to shut it down, Insite, the Vancouver-based supervised-injection site, is alive and thriving, with over 10,000 registered users and around 800 daily visitors. To Mark Townsend, an Insite representative, it’s a success... [More >>]
February 24, 2010
Review: Dr. Bonnie Henry’s Soap and Water & Common Sense
As the world prepares for H1N1’s much-touted fall resurgence, Dr. Bonnie Henry’s approachable, non-technical guide to flu preparedness fails to deliver on its promise, offering neither protection nor peace of mind. Readers in search of preventative measures won’t find much insight beyond the obvious: wash your hands. True to her title, Dr. Henry, the director of Public Health Emergency Management... [More >>]
