Week of May 27, 2004, Issue #449
COVER
Doctored images
It’s hard not to admire medical students. The grueling hours of internship, the sleepless nights, the overwhelming responsibility for the life of another person—these students put so much work and dedication into their studies that I’ve always felt a little ashamed to express my nagging doubts about their education. And yet, I always suspected something vital was missing in the way our education system trains doctors-to-be to reduce their patients into a mass of ever-so-carefully labeled and categorized cells. Could the desire to churn out extremely well-trained and well-read medical technicians be hurting us all on some deeper level? Has the sappy notion of a “caregiver” been laid to eternal rest? If my query is dangerously out of date, at least I’m not alone in posing it. read more...
By AGNIESZKA MATEJKO
By DARREN ZENKO
FRONT
Electile dysfunction
Man oh man, what a choice we Canadians are going to have to make on June 28. I mean, someone’s going to have to be prime minister when we all wake up the next morning—but who the hell do you vote for? In one corner, you’ve got the borderline separatist, borderline racist, borderline American and total political cyanide pill that is Conservative leader Stephen Harper; in the other corner, you’ve got the directionless and corrupt head of a bloated and tired party that gave up on trying to care about the will of the Canadian people years ago in Liberal leader Paul Martin. Is there any way to describe this situation without trotting out poor old “lesser of two evils,” that most exhausted and rickety drafthorse in the tired cliché stable? Probably not, but I’m still not going to say it—unless, of course, you count the sentence before this where I totally did. read more...
By JAY SMITH
By CHRIS BOUTET
Last night an MP3J saved my life
By CHAD HUCULAK
By TARA NARWANI
By DARREN ZENKO
By RICHARD BURNETT
Buy me some pizza and Cracker Jack
By DAN RUBINSTEIN
EDUCATION
Tease and desist
It may seem like a bizarre leap of faith to leave behind a career in speech pathology to manage an international anti-bullying program, but for Marilyn Langevin, it was a move she had to make. read more...
ARTS
Electile dysfunction
Man oh man, what a choice we Canadians are going to have to make on June 28. I mean, someone’s going to have to be prime minister when we all wake up the next morning—but who the hell do you vote for? In one corner, you’ve got the borderline separatist, borderline racist, borderline American and total political cyanide pill that is Conservative leader Stephen Harper; in the other corner, you’ve got the directionless and corrupt head of a bloated and tired party that gave up on trying to care about the will of the Canadian people years ago in Liberal leader Paul Martin. Is there any way to describe this situation without trotting out poor old “lesser of two evils,” that most exhausted and rickety drafthorse in the tired cliché stable? Probably not, but I’m still not going to say it—unless, of course, you count the sentence before this where I totally did. read more...
By AGNIESZKA MATEJKO
By KAREN HOWELL
By AGNIESZKA MATEJKO
By STEPHEN NOTLEY
By PAUL MATWYCHUK
FILM
Doctored images
It’s hard not to admire medical students. The grueling hours of internship, the sleepless nights, the overwhelming responsibility for the life of another person—these students put so much work and dedication into their studies that I’ve always felt a little ashamed to express my nagging doubts about their education. And yet, I always suspected something vital was missing in the way our education system trains doctors-to-be to reduce their patients into a mass of ever-so-carefully labeled and categorized cells. Could the desire to churn out extremely well-trained and well-read medical technicians be hurting us all on some deeper level? Has the sappy notion of a “caregiver” been laid to eternal rest? If my query is dangerously out of date, at least I’m not alone in posing it. read more...
By VUE STAFF
By STEPHEN NOTLEY
Brian Gibson
MUSIC
Heavy metal bad boy Tommy Lee reinvents himself as an electronica act
No self-respecting heavy metal mofo would have anything to do with electronic music, right? Synths and soothers seem the very antithesis of big hair and bass guitars. Still, it’s exactly that crossover that former Mötley Crüe drummer and perennial bad boy Tommy Lee—recently voted the all-around champion on MuchMoreMusic’s “top 20 bad boys in music” poll, beating out the likes of Eminem and Gene Simmons—is seeking to pull off with his new act. read more...
By JERED STUFFCO
By PHIL DUPERRON and JERED STUFFCO
By SEAN AUSTIN-JOYNER
By DAVID STONE
By YURI WUENSCH
By PHIL DUPERRON
By JENNY FENIAK
By ALLISON KYDD
By STEVEN SANDOR
Whitey and TB Player