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June 2006

Roy Romanow argues that Canada must return to its nation-building roots; Alan Broadbent asks if the government will intervene in the fates of Canadian cities; Mark Kingwell analyzes what’s become of the American dream; Nicola Ross examines a mental illness appearing among Nicaragua’s Miskitu Indians; fiction by Michael Winter…

June 2006 / World

Old Hands on Deck

June 12, 2006October 16, 2019 - by Hugh Graham

Could the United States’ Arabists provide an exit strategy from Iraq?

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Books / June 2006

The Truth about Lying

June 12, 2006January 13, 2021 - by Joseph Kertes

Everybody does it, and perhaps they should

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Books / June 2006

The Possibility of a Pornographic Moralist

June 12, 2006April 14, 2020 - by Randy Boyagoda

Caustic, excessive, self-loathing French author Michel Houellebecq skewers Western civilization

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Illutration by Fiona Smyth
June 2006

Nicaragua’s Crazy Sickness

June 12, 2006April 14, 2020 - by Nicola Ross

An indigenous community grapples with a mysterious ailment

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Books / June 2006

Graphic Truths

June 12, 2006October 16, 2019 - by Lea Zeltserman

Once pure fantasy, the comic book has become
a powerful way of portraying reality

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Fiction / June 2006

What He Saw

June 12, 2006October 16, 2019 - by Michael Winter

Photograph by Amanda Tetrault Be that way then, she said. And wished she hadn’t. She touched the straps of her bikini and walked down to the sea. She preferred diving …

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June 2006

The American Gigantic

June 12, 2006May 29, 2020 - by Mark Kingwell

Has the dream of freedom and opportunity declined into a hopeless pathology?

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June 2006

Brighter Lights, Bigger Cities

June 12, 2006September 20, 2021 - by Alan Broadbent

Cities are the bloated elephants in Stephen Harper’s Cabinet room. Will he have the courage to look them in the eye?

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Painting by Anselm Kiefer
Arts & Culture / June 2006

A Storm Blowing from Paradise

June 12, 2006May 24, 2022 - by Daniel Baird

Anselm Kiefer’s Heaven and Earth

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June 2006 / Media

The Shrinking News

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

On their best days, newspaper editorialists analyze government policy statements for what they hide and reveal, beat back PR flaks and others attempting to set the agenda, and go to …

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