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April 2005

Don Gillmor considers the implications of Alberta’s considerable oil reserves in a climate of increasing scarcity; Rita Leistner visits and photographs Baghdad’s largest psychiatric hospital; Larry Frolick tells the story of a disastrous tidal wave reaching a small Thai village; fiction by Lynn Coady…

April 2005 / World

Medical Mystery

April 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Larry Krotz

Kenyan sex worker Hawa Chelangat: still alive, still negative

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April 2005 / Sports

Marathon Man

April 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by Lawrence Hill

At age 74, Ed Whitlock is one of the fastest men on earth

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April 2005 / Society

Peace and Order vs. Glorious and Free

April 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Ken Alexander

As we moved from T-shirts to down parkas and back to T-shirts again during this winter of climate change—one day semi-tropical; the next, polar and full of revenge—political speeches served …

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Illustration by Julie Morstad
April 2005 / Fiction

Wireless

April 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Lynn Coady

Jane salutes you from an age where to be an aficionado is to find yourself foolishly situated in the world. Where to care a great deal about something, no matter …

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April 2005 / Fiction

POETSMART™

April 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Susan Holbrook

Just like people, poets can develop unhealthy, adverse, and sometimes dangerous habits. Poets are cute but, let’s face it, they can disrupt a household. Like children, they need guidance and …

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April 2005 / Feature

Shifting Sands

April 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

Canada has plenty of oil, while China and the US are thirsty and desperate

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April 2005 / World

Wall-to-wall Politics

April 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by David Sax

Graffiti in Buenos Aires is a political act and, for some, a profession. Artist Sergio “Nene” Majon stands beside one of his wall tags. / Photo by David Sax Buenos …

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April 2005 / Society

The Real Easy

April 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Brent Preston

Bourbon Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter is full of pubs and Mardi Gras shops, but authenticity in this tourist district is elusive. / Photo by Richard Cummins / LPI …

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April 2005 / Music

The Lion in Winter

April 12, 2005March 8, 2020 - by Banning Eyre

Zimbabwe’s greatest living musician in a minor key

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April 2005 / Poetry

Apocalypse

April 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Dennis Lee

If it walks like apocalypse. If it squawks like armageddon. If it stalks the earth like anaphylactic parturition. If the halo jams like septicemic laurels, if species recuse recuse if …

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