Current Affairs

The Access to Information Act was supposed to get government documents into the hands of Canadians. Instead, it has created a state in which there are often no documents to get.

November 2004 / Politics

Fall Classic

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Ken Alexander

Facts all come with points of view Facts don’t do what I want them to Facts just twist the truth around—Talking Heads, Crosseyed & Painless

November 2004 / World

Rough Justice

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Shawn Blore

Illegal diamonds are the prize. But death in the Amazon rainforest is the price, as Indians, Brazilian miners, and a mysterious third party fight over the richest deposit in South America.

November 2004 / World

The Numbers Game

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Tom Fennell

Larger, richer, more powerful than ever: that’s the forecast for the U.S. as its birth rate exceeds that of any other industrialized nation—and nearly doubles that of Canada

November 2004 / World

Death Takes a Holiday

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Alisa Roth

beijing — Controlling the use of highly toxic pesticides, Dr. Michael Phillips is saying, is the single most effective measure China could take to improve the mental health of its …

November 2004 / World

Money for Nothing, a Reno For Free

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Deborah Campbell

cairo— In Khan al-Khalili bazaar, near the two-hundred-year-old al-Fishawi café where the Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz penned his magnificent sagas of Egyptian life, two tiny girls in ragged party dresses …

Media / October 2004