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April 2008

Jay Teitel explains Canadian universities’ unwillingness to fail students; Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang study General Rick Hillier, Canada’s chief of defence staff; Christine Pountney recalls her first experience of big-game hunting; part two of former MP Barry Campbell’s memoir on life as a politician; fiction by Janice Galloway…

April 2008 / Books

The Walrus Reads

April 12, 2008May 1, 2017 - by Daniel Baird

Four new titles of note

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April 2008 / Memoir

Darkness Visible

April 12, 2008October 30, 2019 - by Barry Campbell

Ego, ambition, lost souls, and nailing the Opposition in Ottawa: part two of Politics as Unusual a memoir

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April 2008

How the North Was Won

April 12, 2008October 15, 2019 - by Alistair Brown

The western rides its comeback into Canada

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April 2008 / Fiction

Opera

April 12, 2008October 15, 2019 - by Janice Galloway

Splashing and gurgles in the throat. Listen. Almost a racket, a radio slipping out of true. But it’s not that, not at all. It’s Lola. Listen. Singing. Love is just …

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April 2008 / Poetry

Two Cowboys

April 12, 2008April 26, 2017 - by Elise Partridge

He yanked the child along, six years old? dressed like him— ebony snakeskin boots scuttling through blaring cabs; black bolos fluttering; hats bobbing, black rolled brims. Were they running late …

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April 2008 / Education

In Black Focus

April 12, 2008August 23, 2017 - by Ken Alexander

The crisis in Canada’s classrooms

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April 2008 / Fiction

Death on the Installation Plan

April 12, 2008October 15, 2019 - by Jeremy Keehn

Department of Customer Relations Raj Inc. Power Tower Toronto, Ontario April 7, 2008 Dear Mr. Keehn: Thank you for signing a two-year contract for a Raj Best Choice Cable Internet, …

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April 2008 / Poetry

Backwater

April 12, 2008June 28, 2017 - by Phil Wall

A woman takes off her bombshell & puts on her chicken—takes off her chicken & puts on her bombshell—non-stop as a man’s swagger sags to unveil his mother as an …

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April 2008

The Greens Forest

April 12, 2008October 6, 2018 - by Murray Whyte

Vancouver Island’s slow food rebirth

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April 2008 / World

Close to the Noise

April 12, 2008June 28, 2017 - by Mara Hvistendahl

Motorcycle nostalgists in China

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