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Kidnapped

December 30, 2011October 16, 2019 - by Smithsonian Channel

In December 2008, al Qaeda captured two Canadian diplomats and their driver in Niger. Robert Fowler recalls 130 days trapped in the Sahara

December 2011 / Politics

Editor’s Note

December 17, 2011April 13, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

Lauren Tamaki In his last years as prime minister, Pierre Trudeau criss-crossed the globe on a mission. Having spent much of his first twelve years in office trying to bridge …

December 2011 / Poetry

Charlie Brown

December 12, 2011July 20, 2017 - by Troy Jollimore

When the little tree falters and droops pathetically under the weight of that innocent-looking but fatal ornament, and Charlie Brown wails, I’ve killed it, everything I touch gets ruined, I …

December 2011

Smash and Grab

December 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Jason Sherman

This appeared in the December 2011 issue.

Arts & Culture / December 2011

Pizza Night

December 12, 2011July 20, 2017 - by Dave Cameron

A quiet meal at home becomes fodder for market research

December 2011

Montreal Is Burning

December 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Drew Nelles

Arcade Fire’s meteoric rise changed a city and redefined a subculture

December 2011

Going for Baroque

December 12, 2011June 15, 2020 - by Shannon Proudfoot

Last summer, Canada’s National Gallery sparked international debate by displaying a “new” Caravaggio

Books / December 2011

The Walrus Reads

December 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Andre Mayer

Seven new titles of note

December 2011 / Poetry

History

December 12, 2011July 20, 2017 - by Alison Pick

The empty cathedral reminds me of you— memory flares, a match struck in blackness— our old song, the late monks’ psalms, click of a latch: the Middle Ages closed. Centuries …

December 2011 / Memoir

Kidnapped

December 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Robert Fowler

In December 2008, al Qaeda captured two Canadian diplomats and their driver in Niger. In an excerpt from his new book, A Season in Hell, the author recalls 130 days trapped in the Sahara

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Month: December 2011

Kidnapped

Editor’s Note

Charlie Brown

Smash and Grab

Pizza Night

Montreal Is Burning

Going for Baroque

The Walrus Reads

History

Kidnapped

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