Tea of Tranquility
halifax—I’m a coffee drinker of the four-cups-a-day, black-no-sugar variety. But that wasn’t what worried me about the ceramic bowl of thick green tea gently placed before me in a Halifax …
Read MoreDecember 2005/January 2006
Arno Kopecky reports on Iceland’s move toward geothermal and hydrogen power; Michael Enright learns to skate at sixty; Don Gillmor reflects on the decay of the American mystique; Philip Berger shares correspondence he wrote while working at an AIDS clinic in Lesotho; fiction by Colin McAdam . . .
The Greater Goal
freetown—On a dusty pitch, on the edge of one of the poorest countries in the world, a one-legged man is playing soccer. There is skill here. A trapped ball, a …
Read More Silent Takeover
lhasa —Tashi leaned over to me and whispered, “Don’t say anything, please. There are hidden microphones here.” We were entering the Potala Palace, the traditional seat of the Dalai Lama, …
Read More The Eyes of the Tigers
mulaittivu—Shortly after the tsunami demolished much of the coast, beneath the shade of coconut trees, Regita collects palmyra leaves from the forest floor to stoke the cooking fire. Her face …
Read MoreThe Grizzly Prize
It’s November, book-prize time.
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Water to Burn
Iceland’s experiment with hydrogen points toward an oil-free world.
Read MoreSchooling: Repeat After Me
My first teaching experience was in the late 1980s at Westwood Secondary School, located north of Toronto’s airport in Mississauga. The local population was clearly transient, “just off the plane” …
Read MoreRe: AIDS/Africa
Life is very complicated in Lesotho, where the HIV prevalence rate among adults is almost 30 percent…
Read MoreTo Skate, Perchance to Dream
Ottawa’s ribbon of ice, the Rideau Canal, beckons.
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Non-commercial Farmer are Facing Extinction
With the family farm suffering, some enterprising growers are counting on “agritourism” to bring in revenue
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