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September 2009

Helen Humphreys reenacts the Battle of the Plains of Abraham; Timothy Taylor describes the efforts of progressive Sikh youth in their communities; Charles Foran visits the settings of Alice Munro’s life and books; John MacLachlan Gray gets a hip replacement; fiction by Zsuzsi Gartner…

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September 2009 / Society

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September 2009 / Society

Nanny’s Other Family

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Canada’s live-in caregiver immigration program may not be good for the kids

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September 2009 / Sports

The Boys of Autumn

September 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by David Macfarlane

A Tiger-Cat childhood

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Feature / September 2009

On the Plains of Abraham

September 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Helen Humphreys

A novelist recreates one of Canada’s greatest battles

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Feature / September 2009

Showdown on Scott Road

September 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Timothy Taylor

Socially progressive Sikh youths fight for change at one of the Lower Mainland’s biggest temples.

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Photography by Christopher Wahl
Feature / September 2009

Alice in Borderland

September 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Charles Foran

A trip through Munro country, where the writer became herself

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Feature / September 2009

Connected to the Hip Bone

September 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by John MacLachlan Gray

A aging boomer’s quest to repair the wear and tear

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Fiction / September 2009

Summer of the Flesh Eater

September 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Zsuzsi Gartner

Understand that pity is not what we’re looking for. We are men, we remind each other as often as we can, and we must bear that burden. Forgetting was what …

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