Foreword /Margaret Atwood -- The anchor with no coverage / Tom Denholm -- Bum rap / Glen Stone and Denis Woollings -- Biz miz, as usual / Brian Davis -- Angleau / Gerry Macintosh -- Chinocchio / Victor Emerson -- Football and hockey higgledy-piggledies / Neil Dickinson -- Brian the Vth / Terry Ryan -- The ending was swell but the rest was sheer hell / Bob Wakulich -- When Gallup calls / Clive Thompson -- The killer whale / R. Macphee -- Oh, Canada? Revised case history / Stephen M. Grant -- In praise of the triple-E senate / Robert Fischer -- Ode to Jean Charest / David Hunt -- Mac Bush: a mock epic / Terrence Keough -- Heartcry of an over-solicited donor / Robertson Davies -- Glowing tribute / Tricia McCullum -- Faust, part three / John Gertridge -- Grave consequences / John Benson -- Laurier's child / Wendy Peters -- 24 Sussex Driven / Denis Woollings -- Saltchuck / William Peters -- A love song for a cold Canadian / Stuart Peterson -- Poo River / Bill Wilson -- Sunday report / Erika Ritter -- Do not disturb / Eric Nicol -- A Canadian speaks to God (or whatever) / John Goodchild -- Pork pourri / David Fraser -- Hiawatha's heritage / Doreen Makepeace -- The love song of H. Bourassa / Brooks B. Tower -- The love song of Brian J. Mulroney / P.H. Keefe -- Canadian culture / Brian Stewart -- Widow's pique / Patricia Smith -- The beckoned coming / Lionel D. Smith -- Meeching for everyone / Al Purdy -- The Foth and Ottawa / Sen. Royce Frith -- Ancient rune / Bob Ashforth -- Doing the Hoochie-Gucci / Alan R. Lomberg -- The National / Lamont Tilden -- Four daughters / Jessica Burton -- Mornings eyed / Bill Ellis -- Except for Laura Secord / Sylvia Maultash Warsh -- The youthful offender / Doris Letts -- The man with the big chin / Grade 4/6/8 class, Falcon Beach School -- British North America, vigilant we are for thee / Larry Zolf -- The grave-diggers of Canada / John Fraser -- Ode to Canada Post / Charles Pachter -- I'd run away with Leonard Cohen / Sally Deutschmann -- The cancelled Canadian / Rosalee van Stelten -- My rose bush on Meech Lake / Margot A. French -- Without S.I.N. / Glen Becker -- A neo-imperialist lament / Donald Power -- My Earth friendly bag / Robert Priest -- The ghost of P. Trudeau / John Gray -- Lottery numbers lost / Wayne Gibson -- Horizontal cleavages / Linda Gyulai -- My lake / Pierre Burton -- Meech, Rusty and the zen of Chez Helene / Eduardo Espejo -- A senior's income tax return / Louise Simon -- The pirate of Ottawa / Dick Hainsworth -- Priorities / Noreen Olson -- Canadian dinner party / Cherra S. Ransom -- Ode on you O Canada / Don Harron -- Canadian fish-stand lullaby / Bernard Stein -- Hockey Night in Canada / Leo Groarke -- Free trade election / Linda Griffiths -- The leper / Pat Hretchka -- Meech ado / Norma Ouest Linder -- Minimalist nation / Stuart Broomer -- Tax levy, tee-hee / M. Monteith -- The rape of the flock / Susan Rodocanachi -- The bird for Nova Scotia / A. Nonny Mouse -- Canada hold your water / Bill Curry -- Yer hubris / Dennis Lee -- Solidarity / Tom Wayman -- Mission: impossible / Joanne Brigdon -- What was his loco motive? / Deborah Lee -- Of Brian and Ronnie and free trade / Scott Piatkowski -- The average Canadian / Ruth Krahn -- There was an old Pol / George Woodcock -- Basic Black: A con-trite reflection / Charles Macli -- To ... / Irving London -- Once upon a time, my dear / Dorothy Michaell -- Can-da 2002 / S.Y. Richardson -- The black forest / Dave Barrett -- Grieve la difference / Allan Gould -- Modernman / Joan Eyolfson Cadham -- Showdown / Lawrence Allen Wilson -- And then there were none / William A. Edmiston -- B.C. at night / Patricia McCreery -- A mare usque ad nauseam / Hugh MacDonald -- Life is fair / Kathryn Greenwood -- Clearcut promises / Gertrude Lawrie -- Hymn, or her, to a good ol' boy / Patricia Black -- Canadian roulette / Susan Musgrave -- Back bacon and beer / Don Cameron -- The jet / Roydon Strank -- Owed t'Brian / John Skwarok -- Confederation, eh? / Barbara J. Strudwick -- Politics / Barry Hammond -- Adultery in the safeway / Martha Hillhouse -- A surfeit of democracy / Jane Baker Wright -- The secretary / Tomson Highway -- Pope! Thou should'st be living at this hour / Mavor Moore -- Ontario's main street / Joan Glover Smith -- The perfect apple / Gerald Harris -- The law of averages / James R. Bigsby -- Ballade of the boondocks / Robin Skelton -- Mulroney and Wilson / Gary Katz -- Sunday breakfast / Lois R. Kerr -- Applause / Hazel Campbell Tomlinson -- The waist land / Howard Engel -- Gretzky / Graeme Stewart -- Ode to readers of this mag / Robert Carroll -- Ode to a gentle lake / Joan Rys -- Galluping from democracy / Richard Hatfield -- Sh! It's time for the news / Florence E. Brodie -- Oh! Canada / John Margerm -- Oh Canada / Roger Musselman -- Via con Dios / Glen Stone and Denis Woollings -- Ode to barbed lyres et al. / Elsie Goldsmith.