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December 2007

Linda McQuaig examines the Iraq war’s benefits to Big Oil; Noah Richler reports on a controversial mega-quarry in Digby Neck, NS; Timothy Taylor describes a book collector’s obsession; a Fabrica photo essay contrasts life in the West to that in Darfur; Rick Salutin rethinks the Holocaust in the wake of 9/11; fiction by Steven Heighton…

December 2007 / World

How to Get a Head

December 12, 2007July 10, 2017 - by Randy Boyagoda

The birth of a dough boy

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Arts & Culture / December 2007

If It Bleeds Like a Duck…

December 12, 2007July 10, 2017 - by Margo Pfeiff

A Laurentian twist on a French delicacy

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December 2007 / Society

Thinking Inside the Big Box

December 12, 2007November 27, 2019 - by Ken Alexander

It is an old story, often told: Wal-Mart, with its predatory pricing, strategic positioning, and, despite recent losses, ongoing marriage to the growth model, is a wrecker of local virtues. …

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December 2007 / World

Keeping the Beat

December 12, 2007July 10, 2017 - by Kalli Anderson

Music and mourning in Ghana

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December 2007 / World

Making Red

December 12, 2007July 10, 2017 - by Katherine Govier

A mystery in colour

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December 2007 / Poetry

Two Sonnets

December 12, 2007July 10, 2017 - by Camille Martin

i mind is a night wing in the blind atmosphere that sprinkles the ground with its own dust. you are your own muscular witness in a wide station of wandering …

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December 2007

The Autobiography of an Idea

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

Rethinking the Holocaust in light of 9/11, my mentor, and my dad

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December 2007 / World

Road of Fire

December 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Hugh Graham

The war in Afghanistan will be won or lost on Highway 1

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December 2007 / Fiction

The Dead Are More Visible

December 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Steven Heighton

A graveyard shift meant time and a half, but she would have worked these January nights, flooding the park rinks, for regular pay. She worked alone and liked the peace …

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December 2007 / Health

Rat Trap

December 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Robert Hercz

Why Canada’s drug policy won’t check addiction

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