The dooneyscafe.com editors come through with this year’s booby prizes, along with one or two kudos…

The Supreme Court of Canada taught a school board in Surrey, B.C., a lesson in tolerance. Stan Persky looks at the lesson plan

Our Tashkent Correspondent, John McLeod, files another report on life in Uzbekistan

Myrna Kostash revisits an article about SDS in Boston around 1972 and discovers that it was about how she was about to become a Canadian

Jonathan Garfinkel makes an extraordinarily thoughtful journey to the site of one of World War II’s most perplexing massacres

Brian Fawcett uploads the postscript to a forthcoming book, The Way Things Are. The postscript will not be published as part of the book, but comments will be welcomed.

Daniel Gawthrop has second thoughts about music, marketing and his own concert reviewing ability after the Bangkok appearance of an old schoolmate-turned-First Lady of Popular Jazz.

The Short Version arrives at issues of nativity

The Short Version arrives in Berlin