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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…

June 2008 / World

The Other Side

June 12, 2008June 30, 2017 - by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall

Fiji, folks, and fun

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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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Books / June 2008

Review: An Imperfect Offering

June 12, 2008June 30, 2017 - by Daniel Baird

James Orbinski’s life as a humanitarian doctor

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Comics / June 2008

From the Department of Wayward Copywriting

June 12, 2008May 1, 2017 - by Andrew Clark 

Got catchphrase?

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Books / June 2008

None for the Ages

June 12, 2008August 24, 2017 - by Jeremy Keehn

Can we hope to find the right leader for the times?

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June 2008 / Poetry

Each Mortal Thing

June 12, 2008June 30, 2017 - by P.K. Page

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying Whát I dó is me: …

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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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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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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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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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