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October 2007

Rick Salutin makes the case for our public obligation to teach; Roger Martin argues that Canada is at a turning point in its standing in the international economy; Patrick Alleyn looks at the greatest environmental restoration effort in history, taking place in the Chinese Dust Bowl…

October 2007 / Theatre

The Show Must Go On

October 12, 2007July 7, 2017 - by Richard Poplak

Qatar’s expats confront tragedy

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October 2007 / World

Campesino Justice

October 12, 2007July 7, 2017 - by Nik Steinberg

A Mexican experiment that went too well

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October 2007 / Society

Lapham’s History Project

October 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Ken Alexander

To walk with history in your bones is to walk into uncertain times. And so Lewis Lapham, former editor of Harper’s magazine and long-time critic of the boast of certainty, …

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October 2007 / World

Island Hideaway

October 12, 2007July 7, 2017 - by Allison Devereaux

The last days of a one-time leper colony

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First Person / October 2007

Buzz and Bastards

October 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Will Ferguson

A close encounter with Jean Chrétien

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Fiction / October 2007

What a Season It Could Be…

October 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Don Gillmor

No one was more surprised than yours truly when nhl Commissioner Gary Bettman’s crazy plan worked, more or less. We all knew that hockey was in trouble. We all thought …

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Education / October 2007

The Mystery of Teaching

October 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Rick Salutin

In some form, most of us teach. Here’s why we should do it more often

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Feature / October 2007

56*

October 12, 2007August 4, 2016 - by David Robbeson

Was Joe DiMaggio’s fifty-six-game hitting streak the greatest feat in all of sports or merely a product of its time?

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Photograph by Benoit Aquin
October 2007 / Photography

The Chinese Dust Bowl

October 12, 2007April 15, 2020 - by Patrick Alleyn

In response to the rapid desertification of its once-fertile steppes and oases, China is undertaking the most ambitious environmental restoration in history

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Photography by Jonathan Worth
October 2007 / Theatre

Twelve Angry Maids

October 12, 2007April 15, 2020 - by Craig Taylor

Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad brings forgotten corners of myth to light on stage

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