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Moore's film is not enough

by Kevin Potvin

America's first production of guilt and apology falls far short of the mark the world demands of that deeply disturbed nation.

Any resolution of the Iraqi debacle that leaves the American military intact enough to launch another unilateral action against another sovereign country smacks of criminal collusion with the monsters of Pennsylvania Avenue

A Legacy in Language

a cartoon by Sarah Moser

Whether the Republicans win or lose this November, no one can deny their lasting contributions to the English language...

High art in the video game

by Chris LaVigne

The evolution of the video game form has brought it now to nearly equal status with the best in film.

The farmed fish racket

by Wendy Nylund

Details of the science that condemned farmed salmon show that changes in the food industry are required. Those changes are now coming about.

Role-playing gamers and the fall of the church

by Michael Nenonen

Why would fundamentalist preachers take on a bunch of teens playing harmless fantasy games? Because those games take the place of what the preachers are offering.

In order to flourish, fundamentalist fantasies have to capture the teenage market.

Live by the rocket...

by William Kay

The missile-industrial complex within the military industrial complex, imortalized in America's national anthem—“and the rocket's red glare and the bomb's bursting in air”—set the Iraq war up, and ironically, it is missiles that are proving America's biggest problem in this war.

Rumsfeld and his defence company constituency argued that certain emerging states constituted a sufficient threat to continue these programs regardless of cost or diplomatic fallout.

Democracy and the private sector

by Kevin Potvin

Why do we so vigorously reject autocracy in the public economy, but celebrate it in the private economy? Are co-operatives the answer to the destruction wrought by private economy autocracy?

I am woman, hear me simper

by Jennifer Matsui

Both parties studiously ignore the one voting block that could actually win the November elections: single women.

Restorative justice

by Matthew Burrows

Attack launches career in seeking alternatives to conventional justice

The emphasis is on exchanges between perpetrator and victim, instead of just incarceration, is a viable alternative to filling the jails.

Time for a new economy?

by Kevin Potvin

The present economic system, roughly two hundred years old, lies lethargically in the hands of only one kind of participant that has sucked too much of its blood

Do we think to exercise our very same right to demand that managers of all private sector activity also closely obey our commands to do what we want them to do?

Underdogs revel in victory

by Sasha Gajic

After every single match, the world said "The Greeks can't possibly win again." Their unheralded victory is truly the sports story of the year

The disciplined, methodical style adopted by the Greeks not only focused on staunch defense, but capitlized on unique opportunities as they came

Ideology is back

After a 15 year absence, ideology roared back into Canadian politics, catching most big party campaign managers off guard

It is probably--and certainly will be more so in the next election--that the NDP and Conservatives could have done better, not worse, had they emphasized instead of hidden their ideological foundations in this most recent election.

Turner's Movies

reviewed by Scott Turner

Kilometre 0 and Winter Sleepers

Books we're reading this month

reviewed by Chris LaVigne

Trigger Happy; Joystick Nation; and High Score!

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