Last updated March 25, 2001
HighGrader Magazine
P.O. Box 714, Cobalt, Northern Ontario P0J 1C0 -- (705) 679-5533 - (705) 679-5234 FAX
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Are you dulled to sleep by the mainstream media? Then get set to breath in a blast of fresh, northern air. Every two months HighGrader Magazine wades into the issues the big boys won't touch -- corporate skullduggery, the underlying class conflict in wilderness battles, the ever-growing war between urban tastes and rural culture. We've followed the corporatization of classrooms, the sell-out of public lands and the genetic tampering of foods.

There's no party lines here. Along the way we've pissed off big corporations and yuppie environmental lobbies. We've hung out with bear hunters, Hawaiian separatists and cowboy bonus miners --6,000 feet underground. From our base in the one-industry mining and logging towns of Northern Ontario we provide a new take on rural and northern culture. Whether it's finding hidden meaning in action films or exploring forgotten remnants of blue-collar mining history, HighGrader is a magazine with dirt on its fingernails.

HighGrader Magazine is a refreshing, funny and very brassy alternative to the same old, same old.


Here's what people say about us:

"HighGrader is a progressive magazine with deep communal instincts....if there is an agenda behind the many investigative pieces it is to expose unfairness wherever it can be found."
-- Manitoulin Expositor

 

"HighGrader is one of the best progressive, regional publications around. It is a thoughtful publication that offers its readers real insights into life outside the urban world."
-- Counterpoise (Gainesville, Florida)

 

"The search for things authentic and real often takes cultural forms. I think that explains phenomena like HighGrader Magazine, Stompin' Tom and Bruce MacDonald movies."
--Mark Lisac, Edmonton Journal

"My client demands an immediate apolagy."
--Some lawyer from Toronto

 


Kick ass journalism from the boonies.

In This Issue



 2001 Archives
 Archives 2000 Archives 1999  Archives 1995-98

 

 

We Lived a Life and then Some: the life, death and life of a mining town

"One of the richest, most thorough and moving accounts of Canadian working life you will ever read." -- Lawrence McBrearty, USWA

 Grievous Angles

The official Grievous Angels Web site

"The Grievous Angels...rank up with the best of Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle."

--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

 

Industrial Cathedrals of the North / Les Cathedrales industrielles du nord

"Remarkable photographs and thoughtful sociological study has gone a long way to revify the Canadian mining romance."-- National Post

Info on toxic waste issues in the north

Adams Mine Landfill Review

Various Links

http://geocities.com/cool_canuck_award/

 


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