March-April 2009 issue

IN THIS SPECIAL, COMPLETELY REDESIGNED ISSUE: In “TRAFFIC JAMMING, “Jordan Heath-Rawlings surveys the cities around the world that are finding ways to dramatically reduce, or even eliminate, car use, and concludes it could happen here, too. Tim Falconer, author of Drive: A Road Trip through Our Complicated Affair with the Automobile, proposes a 12-step program for breaking our addiction to cars in “AUTOHOLICS.” And in “YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE,” Carolyn Morris explores the underworld of Canadian immigrants who must pay cash for health care, and the doctors who are struggling to treat them. PLUS: RM Vaughan on Baby Boomers; Kerry Pither on Canada’s complicity in torture; Daniel Tencer on Michael Ignatieff’s novels; Tabassum Siddiqui on Calgary band Woodpigeon; Darryl Whetter requests sexier CanLit; Navneet Alang on the immigrant experience online; David Hayes inaugurates our new “Postcard” feature with a dispatch from Tokyo; New poetry from Fraser Sutherland; and a new short story by Mike Spry.