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October 2005

Chris Wood examines the environmental and financial impact of Canada’s glaciers; Alison Gillmor asks if the household organization trend hasn’t gone overboard; Francis Chalifour reflects on the death of his father; Eamon Mac Mahon photographs Uranium City, a Saskatchewan mining town that boomed during the Cold War…

October 2005 / Sports

The White Line Through Hell

October 12, 2005April 30, 2017 - by Barbara K. Adamski

217 kilometres. 40°c. Coyotes lining the route. Welcome to the world’s harshest road race.

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October 2005 / Politics

Equality in the Making

October 12, 2005July 16, 2019 - by Dimitry Anastakis

“I have come here for two days to see the vote on same-sex marriage, to bear witness to history…”

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October 2005 / World

To Catch a Thief

October 12, 2005July 13, 2017 - by Nik Steinberg

Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, known to many in India as “the forest bandit,” was the target of a decades-long manhunt that saw him shot dead in Tamil Nadu in October 2004. …

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Books / October 2005

Who Killed Globalization?

October 12, 2005April 30, 2017 - by Don Gillmor

Was it Colonel Bush in the kitchen with a gun? Mr. Nike in the Gym with a blunt instrument? Sir Ralston Saul in his study with a sharp pencil?

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Feature / October 2005

Closet Obsessions

October 12, 2005April 30, 2017 - by Alison Gillmor

Has the current mania for household organization gone a little too far?

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Arts & Culture / October 2005

Lady Oracle

October 12, 2005October 17, 2019 - by Amy Cutler

Amy Cutler on her quiet magic realism

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October 2005 / Society

Chaim and the Great Time Elevator

October 12, 2005July 13, 2017 - by Martin Patriquin

Oscar-nominated actor Chaim Topol is the narrator of the Time Elevator, an amusement ride that takes visitors through 3,000 years of Jerusalem’s history in just under thirty minutes. / Image …

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October 2005 / Society

Is Osama Winning?

October 12, 2005October 17, 2019 - by Ken Alexander

Welcomed here as the dependants of asylum seekers, educated in our schools, taking full advantage of all the benefits this country so generously offers—now they want to destroy us. —Daily …

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Letters / October 2005

Letters

October 12, 2005February 19, 2019 - by Readers

Greens Bite Back Murray Dobbin outlines an important debate between two distinct factions within the environmental movement (“Green Party Blues,” July/August). The first, which he seems to favour, envisions an …

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Memoir / October 2005

Taming the Monster

October 12, 2005April 30, 2017 - by Francis Chalifour

How a son learned to live with the death of his father

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