How to Get a Head
The birth of a dough boy
Read MoreDecember 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…
If It Bleeds Like a Duck…
A Laurentian twist on a French delicacy
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Thinking Inside the Big Box
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. …
Read More Keeping the Beat
Music and mourning in Ghana
Read More Making Red
A mystery in colour
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Two Sonnets
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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The Autobiography of an Idea
Rethinking the Holocaust in light of 9/11, my mentor, and my dad
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Road of Fire
The war in Afghanistan will be won or lost on Highway 1
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The Dead Are More Visible
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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