| 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 MORE SILVER E-MAIL Some love it, others fear it but nobody wants to turn blue |
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