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July/August 2007

Edward Burtynsky warns that shortsighted development is decimating Canada’s wildernesses; Bruce Livesey doubts the generosity of today’s super-rich class; Taylor Owen and Patrick Travers explain the difficulty of reconciling Canada’s goals in Afghanistan; fiction by Nadia Kalman, Marni Jackson, Camilla Gibb, and Jim Garrard…

Feature / July/August 2007

Moneybags

July 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Bruce Livesey

Today’s super-wealthy are as rich as Rockefeller,
but will they be as generous?

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Environment / July/August 2007

Dreaming a New Myth

July 12, 2007July 17, 2019 - by Andrew Westoll

A lost jungle cave reveals a secret

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Priscila Uppal
July/August 2007 / Poetry

Big Paw

July 12, 2007May 25, 2020 - by Priscila Uppal

The cat’s paw keeps getting bigger. Soon we will have to give it a name. At the vet, the young receptionists all laugh. Tell us it’s perfectly natural though they …

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First Person / July/August 2007

Cowboy Camp

July 12, 2007July 6, 2017 - by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Novelist Guy Vanderhaeghe saddles up

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July/August 2007 / World

“I am strong in my basically”

July 12, 2007July 6, 2017 - by Jon Turk

A bike ride through the Chinese psyche

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Arts & Culture / July/August 2007

Sufi Gourmet

July 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Marcello Di Cintio

Turkey’s most respected food writer unites cuisine and poetry

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Feature / July/August 2007

3D Vision

July 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Taylor Owen

Can Canada reconcile its defence, diplomacy, and development objectives in Afghanistan?

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July/August 2007 / Poetry

The Mall

July 12, 2007December 4, 2019 - by Evelyn Lau

Today I choose it over the ocean. Over the trees, their fall leaves a flock of orange parrots perched on branches. Over the chandelier of sunlight broken on blue waves, …

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July/August 2007 / Technology

Generation WWW

July 12, 2007July 6, 2017 - by Ken Alexander

The new world order, as described in dispatches from the culture front, reveals itself as follows: so long as it is delivered in digestible chunks, is salacious, gossipy, and supported …

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Photograph by Stacy Arezou Mehrfar
Feature / July/August 2007

Charisma

July 12, 2007April 15, 2020 - by Jeff Ryan

Do we want our political leaders to be sexy and playful, or are we content with being bored?

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