Far from Home
Are we alone in the vastness of space? Or is the universe filled with life? After thousands of years of guesswork, humankind may soon know for sure.
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…
Iran’s Quiet Revolution
As the standoff with the United States heats up, Iranians are united on nuclear policy, but little else
Read MoreDomestic Terroir
Will Pinot Noir elevate Canadian wine to world-class status?
Read MoreTongues of the World, Unite!
Esperanto is alive and kicking, but why hasn’t la tuta mondo caught on?
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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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 …
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