Island Hideaway
The last days of a one-time leper colony
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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…
The Show Must Go On
Qatar’s expats confront tragedy
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A Mexican experiment that went too well
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Lapham’s History Project
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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Buzz and Bastards
A close encounter with Jean Chrétien
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Eat or Be Eaten
Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, tells Walrus editor Ken Alexander that in the global economy Canada has one choice: be a little guppy or a big fish
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Wire Transfer
David Simon’s The Wire is at the vanguard of a storytelling revolution that is changing the way we watch TV
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The Adaptation of Mordecai Richler
More than thirty years after publication, St. Urbain’s Horseman finally hits the screen
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Twelve Angry Maids
Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad brings forgotten corners of myth to light on stage
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The Chinese Dust Bowl
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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