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October 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…

Photograph courtesy of Tom Flanagan
October 2004

The Man behind Stephen Harper

October 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Marci McDonald

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

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October 2004 / Society

Class Is Back

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

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 …

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Arts & Culture / October 2004

January 20, 2003

October 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Juliana Spahr

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 mission by poet and editor Gary …

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Environment / October 2004

Pigs in the City

October 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Chris Koentges

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 …

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October 2004

Bush vs. Kerry

October 12, 2004May 25, 2020 - by Michael Adams

Two views on who will win the US election

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October 2004 / Politics

The First Responders

October 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Stephen Handelman

Killology in Colorado

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October 2004

Truth and Reconciliation in Montreal

October 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Joel Yanofsky

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 …

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October 2004 / World

Sundaes with Chavez

October 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Linda McQuaig

caracas — Despite previous disappointments, I always retain the faint hope that the hotel I have booked will turn out to be a delightful little place that perfectly captures the …

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Books / October 2004

The Photographer and the Philosopher

October 12, 2004May 25, 2021 - by Pico Iyer

The traveller, I decided one day, is part photographer and part philosopher: his aim, as he sets out, is to catch some aspect of his subject – a tilt of …

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Arts & Culture / October 2004

The Anti-Monument

October 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Do-Ho Suh

Korean artist Do-Ho Suh brings the statue down from the pedestal

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