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September 2004

Andrew Mitrovica tells the story of a CSIS spy who infiltrated Canada’s neo-Nazi movement; Tariq Ali looks at the madness of the Iraq War; Jill Greenberg takes startling photos of non-human primates; Gail Singer goes to Scotland for her first stag hunt; poetry by Nicole Brossard, Derek Beaulieu, and Robert Kroetsch…

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Arts & Culture / September 2004

Con Artist

September 12, 2004May 25, 2020 - by Vik Muniz

“I make recognizable images using unexpected materials. This portrait of Alice Liddell (the girl who inspired Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland) is made up of toys — which help us …

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September 2004 / World

Land Mines and Looters

September 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Jim Christy

phnom penh—I was climbing across the crumbling remains of Beng Melea, a one-kilometre-square temple complex built early in the twelfth century in northwestern Cambodia, and said to be the model …

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Politics / September 2004

First Dibs on the 21st Century

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

THE FIRST Canadian federal-election campaign of the 21st century hung Parliament, focused on the near past, and was devoid of big ideas. There was no grand design on offer: free …

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Politics / September 2004

A Democrat Abroad

September 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Richard Ford

Ford is an American Novelist.

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September 2004 / World

Loss Leaders

September 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Madelaine Drohan

A safer-sex billboard near the airport in Lusaka: many young Zambian males believe sorcery may be to blame for HIV/AIDS / Photograph by Patrick Kayukwa lusaka—In 2002, Zambia State Insurance …

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Cities / September 2004

Grocery-Store Wars

September 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Dierdre Hanna

new glasgow—Pictou County is in the part of Nova Scotia bordered to the north by the Northumberland Strait. Here, my ancestors, among others, spent centuries trying to farm the same …

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Feature / September 2004

Front Man

September 12, 2004October 31, 2019 - by Andrew Mitrovica

Grant Bristow kept silent for almost ten years about his controversial work as a CSIS spy in Canada’s neo-Nazi movement. Now, finally, he’s ready to tell his side of the story

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Poetry / September 2004

Untitled

September 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Nicole Brossard

where life has new words for soul and muscles about to and voices about to and desire about to there is always a surplus of meanings to absorb the curve …

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Environment / September 2004

Hot Air

September 12, 2004May 25, 2020 - by Douglas Bell

Global Warming as Hollywood celebrity: Pathetic fallacy? Or just plain pathetic?

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Poetry / September 2004

I’m Going to Read Three Poems

September 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Robert Kroetsch

Before I read this first poem I should tell you that my paternal grandfather had a gold pocket watch with a lid over the watch’s face. In his later years …

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