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June 2009

Monte Paulsen details Canada’s failure to develop high-speed rail; Chris Turner considers geologist David Hughes’s argument that we are about to run out of fossil fuels; a photo essay by Balazs Gardi depicts life in wartime Afghanistan; Rick Salutin explores the Haida giving tradition of the potlatch; fiction by Lisa Moore…

June 2009

Coach’s Coronary

June 18, 2009April 13, 2020 - by Jason Sherman
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June 2009

Land of the Lost

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An illustrated series

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Art By Albert Edward Edenshaw
June 2009

Extreme Giving

June 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Rick Salutin

For the Haida of the Pacific Northwest, the potlach is still at the centre of a culture of in which you are what you give

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Art by Adam Fuss
Fiction / June 2009

Water Everywhere, 1982

June 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Lisa Moore

Somehow Helen had picked up the idea that there was such a thing as love and she had invested fully in it. Helen had summoned everything she was, every little …

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June 2009 / Politics

Stephen Harper

June 12, 2009June 21, 2017 - by Andrew Clark 

A short biography of our great Prime Minister

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June 2009 / World

The Peace Plus One Social Club

June 12, 2009May 1, 2017 - by Mitch Moxley

Inside the budding Chinese environmental movement

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Books / June 2009

Canadian Primal

June 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Mark Dickinson

Five poet-thinkers redefine our relationship to nature

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June 2009

An Inconvenient Talk

June 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Dave Hughes’s guide to the end of the fossil fuel age

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Man with a Movie Camera

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Canada’s Mark Lewis launches an ambitious (and expensive) project for the Venice Biennale

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The Prodigal Preacher

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A grandson contemplates a patriarch who favoured the company of strangers

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