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June 2005

Allan Gregg heralds a return to the politics of ideas; Ray Conlogue asks whether Canada will change radical Islam; Nelson Handel travels the frontiers of flavour; Don Gillmor makes a case for Kidlit; Li Robbins unpacks world music; fiction by Sara O’Leary…

June 2005 / World

The Kurdish New Wave

June 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Yigal Schleifer

diyarbakir—Every weekday morning, Hekim Aydin hops on board a beat-up moped and rides to Diyarbakir city hall. He spends his days there archiving historical documents, occasionally getting to shoot a …

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June 2005 / Society

Striking Back at the Empire

June 12, 2005May 25, 2020 - by Andrew Clark 

How comedians throughout history have raged against the machine

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Feature / June 2005

Under the Sheltering Crescent Moon

June 12, 2005May 25, 2020 - by Ray Conlogue

Can our nation’s multiculturalism embrace Islamic radicals and reformers?

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Illustration by Leif Parsons
June 2005 / Politics

Desperately Seeking Ideas

June 12, 2005July 26, 2020 - by Allan Gregg

Politics has been reduced to a guessing game about what voters want. Here’s a thought: how about an election fought on real issues

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Arts & Culture / June 2005

Trauma Mama

June 12, 2005August 23, 2017 - by Daniel Baird

Angry, eloquent, fragile, native artist Rebecca Belmore takes her new work to the Venice Biennale

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Feature / June 2005

Totally Genius

June 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Dan Falk

The smartest scientists in the world still haven’t solved a basic question: are minds like Shakespeare, Mozart, and Einstein born or made?

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Feature / June 2005

The Peace Wager

June 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Kathy Cook

As the killing in Darfur continues, the question arises once more: why can no one stop it?

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June 2005 / Music

Off Beat

June 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Li Robbins

How world music went from something new and wonderful to a generic branding exercise

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June 2005 / Poetry

Among a Lot of Poems

June 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Jacques Roubaud

Among a lot of poems There was one I could never quite bring to mind Except that I had composed it A while back Going down this street This street …

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Feature / June 2005

Frontiers Of Flavour

June 12, 2005June 15, 2020 - by Nelson Handel

A team of explorers follows in the footsteps of Marco Polo—only this time the quest is for the world’s most elusive sensations of taste

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