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October 2009

Chris Turner explains how humanity can adapt to devastated environments; Christopher Shulgan traces the decline of auto workers’ unions in Windsor; Deborah Campbell weighs the journalistic promise of Al Jazeera English; Lynn Cunningham writes a memoir on raising a grandson with fetal alcohol syndrome; fiction by Lee Henderson…

Environment / October 2009

Editor’s Note

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

Illustration by Errol F. Richardson Afew years ago, on a trip to Patagonia, I came across an unlikely Canadian diaspora. In the 1940s, a colony of fifty beavers had been …

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Comics / October 2009

Carbon Foot Prince

October 19, 2009April 13, 2020 - by Jason Sherman
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October 2009 / Poetry

Peephole

October 19, 2009June 22, 2017 - by Troy Jollimore

When he crouched with an eye to the peephole hoping for a glimpse of his neighbor, who, he was convinced was beautiful (“Well, she has a beautiful voice,” he explained, …

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October 2009 / Society

Gaga for Gags

October 12, 2009May 1, 2017 - by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Behind the scenes of Canada’s hidden-camera hit, Just for Laughs Gags

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Books / October 2009

How to Read a Masterpiece

October 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Marianne Ackerman

Coming to terms with Marie-Claire Blais

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Illustration by Chantal Rousseau
Memoir / October 2009

Cause and Effect

October 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Lynn Cunningham

Fetal alcohol syndrome is preventable, incurable, and surprisingly common. Still, it brought me Boop, who has redefined my life

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Photograph courtesy of the Windsor Star
Feature / October 2009

Requiem for a Union Town

October 12, 2009August 4, 2016 - by Christopher Shulgan

How the fight went out of Windsor

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October 2009 / Science

The Glad Scientist

October 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Dan Falk

A Vatican astronomer explains why science and religion are a match made in heaven

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Fiction / October 2009

Analyze This

October 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Kevin Chong

march 3, 2008: On the day of my arrival at FCI Coleman, slumber came with relative ease, given my ignoble surroundings, and my oneiric perambulations were vivid. In my dream, …

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October 2009 / Technology

Biblio Tech

October 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Alex Hutchinson

The public library takes browsing back from Chapters

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