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QUEBEC'S TROUBLES
Chris Goodfellow is a Quebec writer and editor.CIRQUE DU SOLEIL
A dream seen around the world and it started in backwoods Quebec.
THE COMING APOCALYPSE
Tim Belford sees impending doom, lightly.
THE BLUEBERRY BLOKES
The few Anglos living in separatist northern Quebec
publish the quarterly Blueberry Bugle.

SEX OVER 60
From the first valentine to the last bouquet of roses.
THE BEAR FACTS
Charlie Bury reveals the true gen about the Ursus-Homo interface, so to speak.
EGGS BENEDICT ARNOLD
Jim Austin 'sells out' to get in print
or fat's where it's at.

MORE GOOD POETRY
A Universal Lack of Grace
Ward Kelley

SKINK DREAMS
On having reptilian reveries and thoughts of lizards
EUROPEAN TRAVELS
Winding down Jerry Buzzell's report of
winter wanderings in Europe

GEESE & SEALS
Peter Black wonders about Canada's wild goose and seal chase
VERMONT BEFORE CHAMPLAIN
Vermont was a pretty nice place in 1609 but it has been downhill ever since.
FOLKSINGER TOM PAXTON
Still has the Right Stuff
3 POEMS
By Doug Tanoury
MATTRESS DESTRUCTO PROJECT
In which our investigator seeks the answer to the question: "Why is this damned mattress so uncomfortable?"
BULLSHIT DETECTOR
Reporter Dwane Wilkin explains what opinion makers really are saying when they croon love-speak to us
6 HAIKU
By Don Hendrich
ON EDITING & WEATHER
Weekly newspaperman muses on his workweek.
HEALTH SPAT
Ottawa, Quebec City continue their political dance
FINGERS DO THE DIPPING
The Gallivanting Gourmand says cast away your forks and dig in.
YOU NEEDN'T BELIEVE IT
Vermont winters are long and dark, and neighbors are few and far between...
COP OFF TO SWEDEN
Hockey playing Quebec officer off to Scandinavia for a little ice time
HEADLINING CRIME
Stories behind faux tabloid headlines
from an ex-tab writer

IT'S YOUR PARTY
Tim Belford is some put off by
tax-funded Y2K celebrations

THE BANJO MAN
He makes his banjos from gourds
POEM: NOTHING TO REPORT
Upon Joel Spector's Return From Wales
RETURN OF THE PANTHER #1
They say they're back along the border
QUEBEC ELECTION '98
Menu of political articles, opinions, and rants
BITING THE REPORTER
Peter Black rediscovers the sensitivy of Quebec's Premier Lucien Bouchard
NOT ALL PARTRIDGES ARE TREED
And one through the window is worth
two in the bush

THE DOGSHIT DEFENSEMAN
Vermonter Jim Austin recalls Canadian
boyhood on ice

O CANADA OF EARLY SNOW
Phil Norton's images of October
snow storm in Saskatoon
CAKES IN QUEBEC
Yankee dollars for buying the dessert.
A FEW GOOD WORDS
Doublespeak in the film industry or how the French dub around.
ART FOR A MAD WORLD
Goodridge Roberts at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art
A CHILD'S KOSOVO PRIMER
Bad Men, Good Men, Soldiers
DEATH, MUD, SHIT & TEARS
Eyewitness report from a refugee camp in Albania. If rough language and heartbreak offend your tender sensibilities, read no further.
MILOSEVIC, THE NEW HITLER
A Croatian writer passes on some Balkan history and some personal comments on the continuing violent conflict.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RCAF
& Bombs Away, eh?
THIS IS NOT LUNCH AT THE RITZ
Canada is fighting in the Balkans. Where is this all going to end, asks Chris Goodfellow.
THE CRIME
Vermonter tests criminal justice system
HEART ATTACK #4
It was about 6 a.m. and I was the only patient in Emergency...
POETRY: WARD KELLEY
My granddaughter is pregnant
how, I do not know.

NORWEGIAN WINTER'S END
Correspondent Berit Lundh checks in from Oslo
WINTER'S END
Sliding to grace
DR. LAURIN'S CHILDREN
The 'Savior" of French
IRISH SODA BREAD
Bonus: Québécois-Irish recipe
THE PATRIOTES GAME
Rebellion in Quebec, 1837-38
TALKING HIGH TECH COUNTRY
Explanations we truly need
PENGUIN TIME
The rise of the Linux OS
QUEBEC'S ENDANGERED SPECIES
Birth rate and marriages way down, the rate of abortions is way up, and urban "ethnics" are on the rise
BLACK APPLES
Poem by Anna Panunto
ROBBIE BURNS & HAGGIS
Offal, spiced and boiled and washed down with Scotch whiskey. Yum.
LETTER FROM THE ICE
Lee Ann Pipkin reports from Antarctica.
GEEK HAIKU
Just when you thought you had a handle on it...
FROM ROWDY TO NICE
Quebec's Bonhomme Carnaval is as wholesome as Kellogs' Cornflakes.
HELL'S ELONGATED BELLS
18th installment:
Fiction by David Square

THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC
Our Duo in Dubai tells how it works there.
Watch your bank account...

DAD'S OLD BOAT
The flowers of summer
trigger powerful memories

NOT BUYING ALTOID MINTS
It's the bad advertising
RETURN OF THE PANTHER #2
A dead deer and telltale marks
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION
In our Letters section
BIKE PATH COMPROMISE NEEDED
The Tomifobia Valley controversy
WITH JUST A FORK
When the coyotes attacked
it was all Louise had

FAREWELL TO THE TAYLOR CLAN
Ross Murray on the departure from the village
of a family who were there a long time

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