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December 2004/January 2005

Wendy Dennis ponders the realities of modern marriage; Andrea Mandel-Campbell warns that Canada may be losing its claim to the North; Ahmet Sel photographs the people of Kabul; Paul Webster sounds an alarm about fire retardants; Donna Morrissey remembers a snowy drive with her father . . .

December 2004/January 2005

Inside a Different Kabul

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Ahmet Sel

Seven portraits from post-Taliban Afghanistan

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December 2004/January 2005

Who Controls Canada’s Arctic?

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Andrea Mandel-Campbell

Spies, submarines, and foreign ships may signal
that our claim to the North is melting

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December 2004/January 2005

Everyday Poisons

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Paul Webster

Are fire retardants actually a toxic hazard?

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December 2004/January 2005 / Poetry

Lease

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Margaret Christakos

Impatient: You had visited the day of purchase, Dates each had costumed. Every item on own Hanger, recalled the fabric, as I pushed each Room. Was emptied; then began the …

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December 2004/January 2005 / Poetry

A Lilac Begins To Leaf

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Sina Queyras

Last night the memory of her mother walked out into the parking lot of the Long Rail Tavern at precisely five minutes to twelve. Where her tears fell, tiny puffs …

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December 2004/January 2005 / Politics

Burma on the Brink

December 12, 2004May 25, 2020 - by David Kendall

The military junta in Burma has agreed to discuss democracy, but the pace of reform is agonizingly slow

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Arts & Culture / December 2004/January 2005

Hail to the Hicks

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Andrew Clark 

How Hee Haw, Red Green,
and Corner Gas uphold a grand Canadian tradition

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December 2004/January 2005 / Memoir

God in a Pickup Truck

December 12, 2004September 24, 2021 - by Donna Morrissey

A squall struck us broadside, and I bit back a cry of fright as we near fish-tailed over an embankment. Dad kept going

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