Will CANDU Do?
The black sheep of the world’s nuclear-reactor family struggles to compete
Read MoreSeptember 2006
Allan Gregg wonders what Alberta will do with its newfound oil money; Alison Gillmor asks why the constructed language Esperanto hasn’t caught on; Monte Paulsen discusses the possibility of discovering other Earth-like planets; Deborah Campbell looks at a rapidly modernizing and often misperceived Iran…
Snapshots from Cannes
Where every woman stars in her own movie
Read MoreThe Promise of Beauty
Terrence Malick’s brave new worlds
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The Last Spike
The week before federal politicians decamped for the summer began with the second Liberal leadership debate in Moncton, New Brunswick. The eleven aspirants tried to separate themselves from the herd, …
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Under North America
On tongues of jammed horsetail, stacked as plates on the jaws of fish, a scaffold of femurs and calottes staggering from foundation posts of longhaired firepits, these eyes on the …
Read MoreMarried with Husbands
Illustration by Clayton Hanmer A pitch for a new one-hour television series The concept: Rachel Waisberg, a fiftysomething writer, loves her husband, Sam, but they haven’t had sex since their …
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