The Man behind Stephen Harper
The new Conservative Party has tasted success and wants majority rule. If Tom Flanagan and his Calgary School have their way, they’ll get it without compromising their principles
Read MoreOctober 2004
Marci McDonald reports on the politics of the “Calgary School” and its ties to Stephen Harper’s Conservatives; Michael Adams and Stephen Handelman present parallel arguments for Bush and Kerry victories; Gerald Caplan examines our failure to prevent genocides like those in Darfur and Rwanda; fiction by Jonathan Goldstein…
Class Is Back
North America is lucky. As two polities tied to Britain, one war-like and fit to be tied, the other much less so, the continent was settled after the notion of …
Read MoreJanuary 20, 2003
Milton Acorn Gwendolyn MacEwan D.G. Jones In the summer of 1970, Shelly Grimson, a twenty-two-year-old university student with long hair, an army jacket, and a camera, was sent on a …
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Pigs in the City
berlin—Derk Ehlert has that whimsical quality of movement whereby his torso seems to chase after his neck, which is thick and tilted at forty-five degrees then handsomely chiseled through his …
Read MoreBush vs. Kerry
Two views on who will win the US election
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The First Responders
Killology in Colorado
Read MoreTruth and Reconciliation in Montreal
The Memorial Room at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre / Photograph by Pierre St.Jacques, courtesy of the MHMC montreal — Three years ago, on a day in October, Ann Ungar …
Read MoreSundaes with Chavez
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez with the author, Linda McQuaig, looking at Chavez family portraits in the royal palace. / Photograph by the palace photographer caracas — Despite previous disappointments, I …
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