May-June 2009 issue

In this issue: Jeremy Nelson explores the so-called “nuclear renaissance” percolating in the environmental movement, evaluates the science, and comes up cautiously in favour; Jessica Leigh Johnston profiles Corporate Knights editor Toby Knights and his curious working relationship with perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader; Emily Hunter reports from Antarctica on the 2009 Japanese whale hunt and asks whether it’s racist for us to tell them to stop. PLUS: Paul McLaughlin interviews nuclear convert Gwyneth Cravens; new poems by Asher Ghaffar and Carey Toane; a new short story by M.A.C. Farrant; Daniel Tencer on cold-war capitalism; Soraya Roberts on Kelly Reichardt; Roland Elliott Brown on the curious life of our national anthem; Rosemary Frei on zero-growth economics; Jordan Michael Smith on Canada’s Afghanistan dilemma; Lia Grainger on Pecha Kucha; Aaron Broverman on Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe; Jason Anderson on the shrinking size of the big screen; Darryl Whetter on the sorry state of book reviewing in Canada; Navneet Alang on internet humour; Elaisha Stokes on uranium disasters past, present, and future; Chris Benjamin on conservationists against wind generators; Erin Bosenberg on aboriginal language in academia; Melita Kuburas on hackers; Anna Bowen on the lexicon of international development; Heather Kohlmann on bottled water; Graham F. Scott on Robert Dziekanski; and Myles Estey sends a postcard from Butuo, Liberia.