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May 2009

Don Gillmor explains the enduring appeal of Harlequin romances; Susan Harada profiles Canada’s first female Chief Justice, Beverly McLachlin; Jina Moore relates a survivor’s account of the Hutu-Tutsi conflict in Rwanda; Daniel Stoffman analyzes Canada’s susceptibility to terrorist attacks; fiction by Craig Boyko…

May 2009 / World

Editor’s Note

May 25, 2009April 13, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

Leslie Supnet Between April and July 1994, some 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the worst African genocide in modern times. The tragedy held a special interest for Canadians because of …

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May 2009

Dreams from My Grandfather

May 20, 2009April 13, 2020 - by Jason Sherman
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Illustration by Radek Drutis
May 2009

The McLachlin Group

May 12, 2009May 29, 2020 - by Susan Harada

How Canada’s first female Chief Justice has taken the heat off the Supreme Court

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Illustration by Leif Parsons
May 2009

Are We Safe Yet?

May 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Daniel Stoffman

Canada has made strides toward protecting its citizens from terrorism since 9/11, but we’re still far from secure

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May 2009

That Old Flame

May 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

After sixty years, Harlequin Romance books are still enslaving readers. What’s their secret?

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Fiction / May 2009

The Intruder

May 12, 2009October 13, 2019 - by Craig Boyko

Pullman awoke in the middle of the night, listening. He did not have to turn over to know that his wife was in bed beside him. He could feel the …

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May 2009

The Poetry of Grief

May 12, 2009December 6, 2021 - by Melora Koepke

Montreal filmmaker Denis Villeneuve brings the Polytechnique massacre to the screen

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May 2009 / Society

Brisebois Drive

May 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Aritha van Herk

In our noisy, wired age, the bit players of history are consigned to oblivion

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Books / May 2009

The Walrus Reads

May 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Daniel Baird

Eight essential spring books

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May 2009

Walk to the Black Rock

May 12, 2009May 1, 2017 - by Shelagh Plunkett

Montreal’s Irish community remembers its dead

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