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October/November 2008

Chris Wood studies the new school of ecological economics; Guy Saddy recalls the first flourishing of a moderate, Canadian style of Islam in the 1930s; a visual essay by Giles Revell, Matt Willey, and Matthew McKinnon deconstructs self-portraits made with law enforcement’s antiquated Identi-Kit; fiction by Patrick Lane…

Cities / October/November 2008

Grim Repo

October 12, 2008October 14, 2019 - by Charles Montgomery

Speculator behaviour is ravaging cities. Can we resist the hot deal?

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October/November 2008 / Society

Child’s Play

October 12, 2008October 14, 2019 - by Michel Arseneault

Why hasn’t Quebec re-established a minimum age for employment?

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Memoir / October/November 2008

The Incinerator Incident

October 12, 2008April 15, 2020 - by Michael Winter

I fell into a burning ring of fire

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Artwork by Matt Willey and Giles Revell
October/November 2008 / Photography

Our Faces, Our Selves

October 12, 2008April 15, 2020 - by Matthew McKinnon

Self portraits via the police Identi-Kit

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Books / October/November 2008

The World According to Škvorecký

October 12, 2008October 14, 2019 - by Randy Boyagoda

With his new novel, the Czech Canadian dissident returns to his past

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Fiction / October/November 2008

Red Dog, Red Dog

October 12, 2008July 4, 2017 - by Patrick Lane

The house where I was born and died nudged up against Ranch Road. No whisper of smoke lifted from the chimney. The day had been hot, the doors and windows …

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October/November 2008 / World

Cross to Bear

October 12, 2008July 4, 2017 - by Marcello Di Cintio

Praying for safe passage in Morocco

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October/November 2008 / World

Neighbourhood Watch

October 12, 2008May 1, 2017 - by Spencer Osberg

Security strategies for the war zone

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October/November 2008 / World

Monkey’s Lunch

October 12, 2008July 4, 2017 - by Matt Mossman

Pounding rounds with poachers turned protectors

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October/November 2008 / World

Fired in Stone

October 12, 2008July 4, 2017 - by Michael Levitin

A Serbian monk burns through Kosovo

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