Readings

||Image from the play "13" by Mike Bartlett, at Britain's National Theatre.
Shrinking the Economy for Fun (and Out of Dire Necessity)

Degrowth economists argue that perpetual growth is unsustainable—therefore, we'd better contract the economy on purpose. And while this may seem unthinkable to some, it's a lot less loony—or dire—than we might assume.

| Underground work, Bonanza Creek | From the Klondyke Souvenir published by H.J. Goetzman in 1901, via BC Bibliography Collection , |Michael K. Williams as Omar Little in The Wire , || From the Klondyke Souvenir published by H.J. Goetzman in 1901, via BC Bibliography Collection , | Ascending Chilkoot Pass, 1989 | From the Klondyke Souvenir published by H.J. Goetzman in 1901, via BC Bibliography Collection
Reimagining Canadian Culture: Pierre Berton meets The Wire

Canadian literature and its capacity for myth-making has rarely proved much of a match for the violent, frontier stories of American culture—whether contemporary (The Wire) or historical (Deadwood). A winter's stay in the Yukon, however, gives the author pause to wonder whether this needs to be so, and proposes a (bloody) dramatic series or two of our own.