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March 2005

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…

Arts & Culture / March 2005

A Mennonite’s Kill Zone

March 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by David Bergen

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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Business / March 2005

Open for Business

March 12, 2005June 8, 2020 - by Madelaine Drohan

How international corporations are exploiting our nation’s positive image with little more than a postal box

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March 2005 / Memoir

String Theory

March 12, 2005March 1, 2021 - by Deborah Kirshner

As a classical violinist I have learned,
over many years, that great music performances are
more than a matter of physics and technique.

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Books / March 2005

The Bonfire Is Out

March 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Charles Foran

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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Feature / March 2005 / The Walrus True Crime

Masked Avenger

March 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Andrew Mitrovica

Meet “John Holloway,” former clown, trucker, drug addict, high-paid crime fighter,
serious adrenalin junkie, and—for now—retired undercover agent

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March 2005 / Television

All’s Well That Ends

March 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Jeremy Keehn

As The Newsroom enters its final season (again), Ken Finkleman faces his last temptation: being nice

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Cities / March 2005

Catch of the Day

March 12, 2005August 7, 2021 - by Leo Furey

Who needs cod? Newfoundlanders troll the seas for treasures of a different kind.

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March 2005 / Media

Copycat Crimes

March 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by George Emerson

If the music industry can profit from a sneaky, hidden, ridiculous tax, why can’t publishers
profit from a tax on paper?

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Arts & Culture / March 2005

Crazy Life

March 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by Carol Rama

Italian artist Carol Rama, now 86, has been controversial since 1945

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March 2005 / World

Coalition of the Sort-of Willing Canada Iraq Police

March 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by Martin Patriquin

On a US base in Jordan, Canadian cops are training new Iraqi police officers for an impossible assignment

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