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Vol. 11, No. 2, 2012

     
 
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David Solway
Louis René Beres
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Farzana Hassan
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Samuel Burd
Sylvain Richard
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CONTENTS
  1. Editorial
THE SOCIALIST TRANSFER OF WEALTH by David Solway
Wealth has been transferred but to where?
  2. Protest
THE FULLY HUMAN MEANING OF OCCUPY WALL STREET by Louis René Beres
Is the movement a symptom of consumerism run amok?
  3. Confessional
I DIDN'T LOSE MY FAITH, I JUST DON'T HAVE IT by Tommie Shelby
He was spurned not for his colour but his nonbelief.
  4. Ethics
IS INCEST WRONG? by Tauriq Moose
"I kissed my cousin and made her cry." Why?
  5. Word Nerd
THE TYRANNY OF LINGUISTIC CORRECTNESS REDUX by Howard Richler
Do you swear that your "ovarimony" (testimony) is the truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?
  6. Ethics
HISTORIC CRIMES AND NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY by Thomas Rodham
Is national pride feasible without national confession?
  7. Music
SIX DEGREES OF JAZZ with John Kelman
When is a jazz festival not a jazz festival?
  8.

Horror
EMPIRE OF THE BEETLE (ANDREW NIKIFORUK) reviewed by Richard Pickard
There's no stopping the voracious bark beetle: 30 billion pine and spruce trees have bit the dust.


  9.

Essay
LET THERE BE BLOOD by Robert J. Lewis
The spectator and blood sport: the inseparables.


  10.
Essay
VLADIMIR NABOKOV: GIVING FREUD THE SLIP by Brian Boyd
Does literature tell more of the mind's deep than psychoanalysis?
  11.

Film Review
PRESUMED GUILTY reviewed by Nancy Snipper
Hernandez & Smith take on Mexico's corrupt legal system + Nancy's nightmare -- there and back.


  12.

Book Review
BRIT WITS: A HISTORY OF BRITISH ROCK HUMOR (IAIN ELLIS) reviewed by Farzana Hassan
Ellis makes the case that it was Brit humour that endeared us to British music.


  13.

Art
THE INSTALLATIONS OF HAZEL BRYCE & JOLANTA SPRAWKA by Lydia Schrufer
The art of transforming mundane materials into high art.


  14.

Health
PLASTICS, TOXICITY AND EVERYONE'S HEALTH by Betsy L. Chunko
Should there be an advisory against drinking water (bisphenol-A) from plastic bottles?


     

 

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2011 Festival Nouveau Cinema de Montreal, Oct. 12-23st, (514) 844-2172
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Arion Baroque Orchestra Montreal
2008 Jazz en Rafale Festival (Montreal) - Mar. 27th - April 5th -- Tél. 514-490-9613 ext-101
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