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March 2006

Allan Gregg calls for change to Canada’s model of multiculturalism; Sean Maloney and Tom Fennell argue that Canada’s operations in Afghanistan should be recognized as a war; Chris Dewdney ponders living in the flow of time; Alison Gillmor argues that repression of emotions is back in vogue; fiction by Randy Boyagoda…

March 2006 / Politics

Soldiers, Not Peacekeepers

March 12, 2006May 1, 2017 - by The Walrus

Content Briefly describe the anecdote at the beginning of the article. What is the difference between a peacekeeper and a soldier Why is one Canadian soldier sick of being called …

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March 2006 / Politics

Shades of Greenpeace

March 12, 2006July 16, 2019 - by John Turner

The venerable environmental pressure group looks to strengthen its profile in the press

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March 2006 / Society

The Empty Middle

March 12, 2006October 16, 2019 - by Ken Alexander

By Saturday, January 7, 2005, the Jane Creba memorial — small bouquets, compassionate poems, candles — had grown steadily, pushing its way across the sidewalk in front of the Foot …

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March 2006 / World

Camp Nowhere

March 12, 2006July 10, 2017 - by Siri Agrell

—Somewhere in the Middle East, sparkling in the desert sun, is a piece of Canada no one can really explain. It is a single plastic tiara, encrusted with fake plastic …

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March 2006 / World

Hot Jazz in Cold Wars

March 12, 2006July 10, 2017 - by David Sax

havana—“The next performance will be Tightrope,” says the announcer, “who will play 100-percent improvised jazz.” Free jazz. Oh no. Two hours into the second night of Havana’s International Jazz Plaza …

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March 2006 / Society

Free Associations

March 12, 2006July 10, 2017 - by Hal Niedzviecki

toronto—Offer: A 1kg can of Maxwell House Original Roast Coffee that is about 90% full…. I usually buy Tim Horton’s coffee, but the price of this can was too good …

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Arts & Culture / March 2006

Grubstreet Chiaroscuro

March 12, 2006June 2, 2020 - by Tom Hunter

British photographer Tom Hunter finds classical inspiration on tawdry headlines

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Health / March 2006

Designs for Dementia

March 12, 2006December 8, 2022 - by Marni Jackson

Bookmark it now, before you forget it

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Business / March 2006

Hong Kong Goes King Kong

March 12, 2006June 2, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

Economic prosperity fuels a rivalry between Hong Kong and Mainland China

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March 2006

Identity Crisis

March 12, 2006May 27, 2020 - by Allan Gregg

Multiculturalism: A twentieth-century dream becomes a twenty-first-century conundrum

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