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April 2009

Mark Kingwell channels Barack Obama, America’s philosopher president; Alex Hutchinson profiles Neil Turok, executive director of Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics; Louie Palu meditates on the closing of Guantánamo Bay; Hal Niedzviecki examines the trend of women exhibiting themselves online; fiction by Helen Humphreys…

April 2009

Cashing In

April 12, 2009October 23, 2019 - by Patricia Bailey

With a new series on Showcase, Aboriginal humour is going mainstream

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April 2009 / Poetry

A Warbler At My Window

April 12, 2009June 21, 2017 - by John Pass

April again, bright morning and he’s back, flinging senseless against the pane his scruffy plumage, his shit and mucous and god knows what other bird-body fluids. . . He’s at …

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April 2009 / Books

Not-So-Mechanical Worlds

April 12, 2009May 25, 2020 - by Alison Gillmor

Struan Sinclair bridges the gap between print and virtual reality

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April 2009

It’s About Time

April 12, 2009October 13, 2019 - by Rebbecca Addelman

A foolproof way to beat the late-winter blahs

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April 2009 / Society

The Other Porn Addiction

April 12, 2009May 25, 2020 - by Hal Niedzviecki

Why are ordinary women exposing themselves online?

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All in the Game
April 2009 / Politics

All in the Game

April 12, 2009July 16, 2019 - by Mark Kingwell

Inside the mind of Barack Obama as he sets forth on his first term as president

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April 2009 / Science

Perimeter’s Heart

April 12, 2009July 17, 2019 - by Alex Hutchinson

World-renowned physicist and social innovator Neil Turok brings his mission to Waterloo

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April 2009 / World

Goodbye, Guantánamo

April 12, 2009October 13, 2019 - by Louie Palu

A photo gallery from the US military base in Cuba

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April 2009 / World

Love and Rockets

April 12, 2009October 13, 2019 - by Mohammed Hanif

An India-Pakistan wedding, briefly interrupted by fighter jets.

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April 2009 / Books

Extraordinary Canadians

April 12, 2009May 25, 2020 - by Philip Marchand

In a new biography series, Canada is reimagined as a liberal Protestant nation

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