This Magazine articles from November 1998

This Magazine archives from November 1998

Doing the right thing.
November 1, 1998... For a party that gave us Brian Mulroney and a newfound awareness of backroom deals, the federal Progressive Conservative party's leadership selection process was something of a revolution in grassroots politics. The party put out an open call...

Other side of the mountain (outdoor gear).
November 1, 1998... On a trip to the West Coast this past summer, a friend and I took an afternoon to hike up the back of a 2,000-foot granite cliff near Squamish known as The Chief. During a break, I pulled out our guidebook and re-read the part advising hikers...

Press one for poverty press two for homelessness (Andersen Consulting).
November 1, 1998... Welfare has always been accused of having a paternalistic and policing function when it comes to the poor, even in more generous times. But critics are saying that whatever humanity existed in social services in Ontario and New Brunswick has...

Gimme shelter.
November 1, 1998... It's become a corporate mantra that taxes are just too high in Canada, and we're gonna get crushed by globalization. But last year, KPMG International, a Canadian-based management consultancy, found that when property, payroll and other taxes...

May I please speak to the lady of the house?
November 1, 1998... Pollsters love to have their methodology considered exact. And while in some rough senses it is, in many others it is questionable. I know--I've worked in the polling industry for many years, and at its lowest ranks. I'm an interviewer. My work...

It's an athlete's world after all.
November 1, 1998... TORONTO IS CURRENTLY BIDDING for the 2008 Olympics. But beneath all the excitement, the lobbying, the press conferences and the noise are a few Olympic results worth a closer look. Consider, for instance, the way host cities go to great lengths...

Party's over: the NDP just keeps looking more and more like the tax-cutting, "business-friendly" Liberals.
November 1, 1998... *Sam Gindin is on the staff of the Canadian Autp workers (CAW). The view expressed here is not that of the union, but it does reflect a debate currently going on within the CAW. Few on the left would describe the NDP as having any serious...

Can you see the difference? According to purists, magalogues are the unholy offspring of magazines and catalogues.
November 1, 1998... I'm looking at two piles of periodicals: in one, there are a number of traditional magazines--GQ, Bon Appetit, a new, Details-ish pursuit called Gear and something titled Stuff for Men, from the publishers of the sophomoric men's magazine...

Grabbing the bear by the horns: the global economy is in serious meltdown ... despite the rhetoric about globalization, it's not out of our control.
November 1, 1998... AS THE HUBBUB OVER THE APPROACHING millennium moment picks up, it is interesting to recall the words of Sidney Webb. Not exactly a household name these days, Webb was a well-known progressive parliamentarian in Britain in the early part of the...

Playing revolution (Active Resistance 1998).
November 1, 1998... The dirty kids who show up for the gathering all agree: things are fucked. Not just a tinker and fix-it kind of broken, but fucked from the inside out. They aren't all self-described anarchists, not by far, but most of them are sick of seeing...

Not in my backyard: when the 23,000 alleged victims of the Omai Gold Mine spill in Guyana started to look for compensation, they headed to the mine's corporate headquarters in Montreal.
November 1, 1998... ON THE MORNING OF AUGUST 19, 1995, Judith David awoke in her home in Bartica, Guyana, to the blare of loudspeakers. A fleet of helicopters and boats was racing along the shores of the nearby Essequibo River, the country's main waterway, warning...

How the moon affects things.
November 1, 1998... My oldest friend in all the world was able (this was in another life) to explain just why the stars would flicker in the sky while planets shine a constant light. To tell a planet from a star by looking up at night's a trick of the light it...

Children's Aid is coming.
November 1, 1998... You try to prepare; pick up clutter, wash dishes, dunk your hangover in a mug of wine, until the doorbell rings. The kitchen floor's still sticky, your four-year-old is reciting dirty songs her sisters taught her ...

God rides a Yamaha: musings on pain, poetry, and pop culture.
November 1, 1998... If Erma Bombeck ever had any real problems to prattle about, a part from those pesky, tumbling souffles, she might have written God Rides a Yamaha (Northstone). KATHY SHAIDLE's episodic account of her life after being diagnosed with Lupus is...

(Keeper - a reusable menstruation cup).
November 1, 1998... Do the following words frighten you: endometriosis, cervical erosion, dysplasia, toxic shock syndrome? If you're a woman, they should (they frighten me and I'm male). This nasty list, merely a handful of the possible side effects of traditional...

(Heavy Girl Press).
November 1, 1998... Don't call them heavy, don't call them big-boned or plus-size, they prefer the F-word: fat. Zine editor KERRY DANIELS and filmmaker/activist ALLYSON MITCHELL are two artists at the forefront of the Large and in Charge movement. It's a...

(Beyond McWorld).
November 1, 1998... If only my Grade 9 political science teacher had shown the class BEYOND MCWORLD--instead of Building the Great Canadian Railroad--I could have saved a fortune on green leather-backed Adidas and Brooke Shields movies. Co-produced by Operation...

Don't delay, pay today! (PSAC pay equity).
November 1, 1998... The pay equity case between the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and the government is like Titanic. You know exactly what's going to happen, but first it'll take a long time and a lot of money. The case has already been 14 years...