“Chillax, Pops”
I‘m not sure exactly when Canada struck me anew as a decent place worth fighting for, but it happened sometime this past summer. The arrival of Thomas Noiset, our sixteen-yearold …
Read MoreNovember 2006
Nora Underwood delves into what neuroscience tells us about the teenage brain; Andrew Nikiforuk questions Alberta’s dependence on VLT gambling revenues; a photo essay by Sarah Hughes depicts women in their “comfortable and safe” outfits and their “attractive and sexy” outfits; fiction by Tobias Wolff…
Banking on Catastrophe
Beneath an Arctic island, the seeds of a
postapocalyptic garden lie buried
Keeping Everest Honest
Elizabeth Hawley, arbiter of Himalayan
glory and shame, calls it like she sees it
Scarce Heard Amid the Guns
Does Canada’s war museum say enough about peace?
Read MoreThe Frozen Zoo
As species disappear, natural history’s future is put on ice
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When catalogues become books
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A Resonant Boom
How Shanghai’s citizens view their city’s seemingly unending growth.
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Re-creating Family
It took seven years for us to be reunited with our father in Canada
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Alberta’s Gamble with Gambling
The “crack cocaine” of gaming hooks a senior mandarin—and the provincial treasury
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The Teenage Brain
Why adolescents sleep in, take risks, and won’t listen to reason
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