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It may come as no surprise, but in the world of literary magazines, Canada has produced two solitudes. In this issue’s feature, Ottawa’s durtygurl, Nichole McGill, focusses on the plight of Canada’s grittier, independent subculture of urban tales and erotica in the face of a seemingly stable bastion of mainstream literary magazines. In Business Word, Peter Zvalo takes on the federal government Request for Proposals development process.

	Dropped Threads: Canada’s Alternative Writing and Culture Magazines Writer Nichole McGill takes us into the perilous world of Canadian independent literary magazines.
	Requests for Proposal — A Call for Standardization Anyone who has written a proposal knows that it sometimes takes a lot of work to make work. Peter Zvalo makes some suggestions on how to improve the Canadian federal government’s unnecessarily confounding requests for proposals.
	Deking for Dignity Miss Hoopty narrowly escapes embarrassment.
	Night Hawks and Lotus Poems by Shelley Tomlinson and Charlie O’Brien.