May 2, 1966

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IN PURSUIT OF MY PAST ON THE ROAD FROM THE ISLES

She’d been raised on tie Canadian prairies, with tie brave legends of a Scotland she’d never seen. Then the author went h search of the dream — and found the reality By MARGARET LAURENCE18 min

CAN THE YOUNG TURKS SEIZE PARLIAMENT HILL?

As Ottawa's frustrated young MPs see it, there's nothing wrong with parliament that couldn't be fixed by throwing out the Old Guard. But their patience is running thin By BLAIR FRASER15 min

I’M GLAD THEY DIDN’T HANG MY SISTER’S KILLER

UNTIL JANUARY 1963 I was an ardent and vocal advocate of the abolition of the death penalty. I devoutly believed that executing murderers lowered all of us to the killers’ own level. Then my teenage sister was murdered, and suddenly I became an equally ardent and vocal advocate of capital punishment, and believed that even hanging was too good for the murderers among us. By Wayne McLaren, continued13 min

MAILBAG

I ENJOYED YOUR varied and colorful Explore Canada '66 travel report, and in particular admired the photograph on your cover. But you didn't tell us where the picture was taken. P. D WILLIAMS, TORONTO Peter Varley's photograph shows Lunenburg Nova Scotia, taken from a stretch of sea grass across the harbor.

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East Side Story: WHAT’S GOING ON IN ASIA’S CLASSROOMS?

Who’ll one day speak for tomorrow’s fast-changing East? Two Canadian reporters talked with its best hope — the children By CHARLES WINTER6 min

Scratch a rebel, find a poet: the unintentional verse of william Lyon Mackenzie

POLITICIAN AND PUBLISHER, editor and essayist, reformer and revolutionary — William Lyon Mackenzie, the vocal and often vicious critic of the Family Compact that ruled Upper Canada in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, was all these things and many more.