Strange Journey
Everything old is new again as China reinvents itself for the twenty-first century.
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Allan Gregg argues that Paul Martin’s health accord threatens Canada’s national unity; John Fraser looks at the evolution of modern China; Lawrence Hill asks what black Americans’ obligations are to the people of Africa; Brian Preston asks if a new marijuana mist could become the Aspirin of the twenty-first century…
Sistani’s Silent Partners
The mysterious Al Dawa party, in league with head cleric Ayatollah Sistani, may be the new powerbrokers in post-election Iraq.
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Corporate Cannabis
Will a new marijuana mist become the Aspirin of the twenty-first century?
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Our Home and Wired Land
Spycraft struggles to stay on top of both terrorists and technology
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Quebec’s Final Victory
Pierre Trudeau tried to stop a cycle of blackmail, where one province held up the national interest by bargaining solely for its own parish. Paul Martin’s new health accord is an invitation not just for one blackmailer, but for ten.
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A Vote for Democracy in Palestine
Despite everything, the would-be voters came
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Missing Marshall McLuhan
toronto—A trumpeter stands beside a bus shelter belting out jazz riffs, while out on the street a man on stilts galumphs past as a juggler tosses fire. On this warm …
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Aging Gracefully
the hague—When Sabine Kupferberg, one of the finest contemporary dancers of the Nederlands Dans Theater (ndt), reached the age at which dance steps that had once been easy increasingly became …
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