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February 2005

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…

Feature / February 2005

Quebec’s Final Victory

February 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Allan Gregg

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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February 2005 / Politics

A Vote for Democracy in Palestine

February 12, 2005July 16, 2019 - by Paul Adams

Despite everything, the would-be voters came

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February 2005 / Society

Missing Marshall McLuhan

February 12, 2005May 4, 2020 - by Andrew Clark 

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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February 2005 / Sports

Aging Gracefully

February 12, 2005May 4, 2020 - by Cathelijine Esser

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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February 2005 / Poetry

Calgary

February 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by P.K. Page

Calgary. The twenties. Cold, and the sweet melt of chinooks. A musical weather. World rippling and running. World watery with flutes. And woodwinds. The wonder of water in that icy …

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February 2005 / Politics

Be Prepared

February 12, 2005May 4, 2020 - by Ken Alexander

The latest Senate committee to investigate the media has set an ambitious goal: to study “the appropriate role of public policy in helping to ensure that the news media remain …

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February 2005 / Society

Talking Through Divorce

February 12, 2005May 4, 2020 - by Ken Alexander

boston—Copley Square is a study in contrasts. At the south end sits the stately Boston Public Library, founded in 1848 and built “for the people and dedicated to the advancement …

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Feature / February 2005

Strange Journey

February 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by John Fraser

Everything old is new again as China reinvents itself for the twenty-first century.

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February 2005 / Politics

Sistani’s Silent Partners

February 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Hugh Graham

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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Photograph by Kourosh Keshiri
Cannabis / February 2005

Corporate Cannabis

February 12, 2005June 3, 2021 - by Brian Preston

Will a new marijuana mist become the Aspirin of the twenty-first century?

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