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June 2008

Larry Krotz describes how Canada’s development and immigration policies let us poach Third World doctors; Christopher Shulgan reflects on a 1980 visit by the “architect of perestroika” to the Doukhobors, a Russian sect exiled to B.C. in the 1890s; Bill Reynolds reveals the hazards and rewards of urban bicycling; fiction by Austin Clarke…

Books / June 2008

Review: Atmospheric Disturbances

June 12, 2008June 30, 2017 - by Alison Pick

A first novel by Rivka Galchen, MD

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Arts & Culture / June 2008

Eye of the Storm

June 12, 2008October 11, 2019 - by Daniel Baird

The quiet force of photographer Larry Towell

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June 2008 / Technology

For Sale: Arctic Sovereignty?

June 12, 2008June 30, 2017 - by Michael Byers

How losing a Canadian satellite to the US would be like losing our eyes on the North

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Feature / June 2008

Poaching Foreign Doctors

June 12, 2008August 8, 2020 - by Larry Krotz

Do our development and immigration policies amount to foreign aid in reverse?

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Feature / June 2008

Geared Up

June 12, 2008October 26, 2020 - by Bill Reynolds

On the road to two-wheeled transcendence. One man’s love affair with his bicycle

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June 2008 / Politics

Tour of Duty

June 12, 2008July 16, 2019 - by Oliver Noble

Getting the hell out of Kabul: a Canadian soldier’s guide.

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Books / June 2008

Arias of Darkness

June 12, 2008October 15, 2019 - by Siobhan Roberts

Setting Joseph Conrad’s classic novel to music.

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June 2008 / World

Spoiling for a Fight

June 12, 2008October 1, 2018 - by Larry Frolick

Guatemala’s sailfish hunters at sea

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June 2008 / World

Extraordinary Chambers

June 12, 2008October 15, 2019 - by Chris Tenove

Who will be convicted of the Khmer Rouge’s war crimes?

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Books / June 2008

Review: Bottomfeeder

June 12, 2008August 23, 2017 - by Jared Bland

How to eat ethically in a world of vanishing seafood

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