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Month: March 2005

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March 2005 / Media

Copycat Crimes

March 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by George Emerson

If the music industry can profit from a sneaky, hidden, ridiculous tax, why can’t publishers
profit from a tax on paper?

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March 2005

Home Away From Home in DC

March 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Kyle Stone

washington—When I first moved to Toronto from the United States in the early 1990s, I loved watching local Buffalo news. Delightfully, it was always bad news. Murders! Arsons! Racial inequities! …

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March 2005 / Politics

Life of Brian

March 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Craig Taylor

london—Brian Haw and I spent the night together back in September 2002. I had a sleeping bag, which I unrolled on the grass of Parliament Square in Central London, across …

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March 2005 / World

Water Torture

March 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Emma Ruby-Sachs

soweto—“Shoot the may-or, the may-or, the may-or! I shot the may-or, the may-or, the may-or!” Roughly 500 men, women, and children march down Rissik Street, through the business district of …

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Arts & Culture / March 2005

A Mennonite’s Kill Zone

March 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by David Bergen

winnipeg—We live in Wolseley, a granola-belt neighbourhood. We are surrounded by tree huggers. We’ve got standards to uphold, pacifist Mennonite standards. So, for the teenage boys in our family, when …

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Business / March 2005

Open for Business

March 12, 2005June 8, 2020 - by Madelaine Drohan

How international corporations are exploiting our nation’s positive image with little more than a postal box

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March 2005 / World

Coalition of the Sort-of Willing Canada Iraq Police

March 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by Martin Patriquin

On a US base in Jordan, Canadian cops are training new Iraqi police officers for an impossible assignment

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March 2005

Catch of the Day

March 12, 2005August 7, 2021 - by Leo Furey

Who needs cod? Newfoundlanders troll the seas for treasures of a different kind.

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Arts & Culture / March 2005

Crazy Life

March 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by Carol Rama

Italian artist Carol Rama, now 86, has been controversial since 1945

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Books / March 2005

The Bonfire Is Out

March 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Charles Foran

Illustration by Courtney Wotherspoon books by tom wolfe discussed in this essay: I Am Charlotte Simmons HarperCollins (2004) 676 pp., $37.95 Hooking Up Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2000) 293 pp., …

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