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December 2008

Charles Montgomery explains how lavish hotels and high-security fortifications are making Kabul more dangerous; Alexander Gelfand ponders how personal genetic testing for drug therapy benefits Big Pharma; John Vaillant recalls an 1884 lynching committed on Canadian soil; fiction by Peter Behrens…

Books / December 2008

Review: The Muskwa Assemblage

December 12, 2008July 5, 2017 - by Jared Bland

Don McKay’s alternative to cow placenta sculpture

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Books / December 2008

The Last of the Wild Jews

December 12, 2008October 14, 2019 - by Charles Foran

Is it the end of an era for Jewish-American writing?

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December 2008 / Environment

The Birdman of Hastings Track

December 12, 2008July 17, 2019 - by Peter Valing

Pigeon pursuit in the Lower Mainlands of BC

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December 2008 / First Person

A Liar’s Life

December 12, 2008October 14, 2019 - by Bruce McCall

Everything I’m about to tell you is a pack of lies.

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December 2008 / Theatre

Bare-Naked Soul

December 12, 2008October 14, 2019 - by Alexandra Redgrave

Montreal choreographer Dave St-Pierre pushes his dancers to their limits

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Illustration by Jillian Tamaki
December 2008 / Feature

The Lynching of Louie Sam

December 12, 2008July 27, 2020 - by John Vaillant

In 1884, an American mob brought frontier justice to the Canadian border. Their deed echoes to this day

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