A Mennonite’s Kill Zone
winnipeg—We live in Wolseley, a granola-belt neighbourhood. We are surrounded by tree huggers. We’ve got standards to uphold, pacifist Mennonite standards. So, for the teenage boys in our family, when …
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Jeremy Rifkin suggests that Canada is quietly becoming one with the US’s “blue states”; George Emerson proposes that Canada tax blank paper; Susan McLelland looks at efforts to secure rights and protections for Canada’s immigrant nannies; Andrew Mitrovica profiles Canada’s most successful undercover agent; fiction by Margaret Atwood…
Open for Business
How international corporations are exploiting our nation’s positive image with little more than a postal box
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String Theory
As a classical violinist I have learned,
over many years, that great music performances are
more than a matter of physics and technique.
The Bonfire Is Out
Illustration by Courtney Wotherspoon books by tom wolfe discussed in this essay: I Am Charlotte Simmons HarperCollins (2004) 676 pp., $37.95 Hooking Up Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2000) 293 pp., …
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Masked Avenger
Meet “John Holloway,” former clown, trucker, drug addict, high-paid crime fighter,
serious adrenalin junkie, and—for now—retired undercover agent
All’s Well That Ends
As The Newsroom enters its final season (again), Ken Finkleman faces his last temptation: being nice
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Catch of the Day
Who needs cod? Newfoundlanders troll the seas for treasures of a different kind.
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Copycat Crimes
If the music industry can profit from a sneaky, hidden, ridiculous tax, why can’t publishers
profit from a tax on paper?
Crazy Life
Italian artist Carol Rama, now 86, has been controversial since 1945
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Coalition of the Sort-of Willing Canada Iraq Police
On a US base in Jordan, Canadian cops are training new Iraqi police officers for an impossible assignment
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