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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…

First Person / October 2009

Forty-Five

October 12, 2009October 11, 2019 - by Lisa Moore

Arriving at the age of looking back

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Feature / October 2009

The Age of Breathing Underwater

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

Environmentalists have long struggled to save Nature from humanity’s negligence — and still we’ve reached the brink of catastrophe. How can we learn to thrive in the climate we’ve created? The answer begins beneath the sea…

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Feature / October 2009

The Most Hated Name in News

October 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Deborah Campbell

Can Al Jazeera English cure what ails North American journalism?

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Fiction / October 2009

Long Live Annie B.

October 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Lee Henderson

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion. —Talmud Iwas night janitor at the Pacific Cinémathèque in Vancouver when I discovered Annie B. hiding out …

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October 2009 / Visual Art

The Secret

October 12, 2009October 11, 2019 - by Brett Grainger

The Group of Seven’s infatuation with the occult mysticism of Madame Blavatsky

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Media / October 2009

This Right Here Is Rich Terfry

October 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Dave Morris

The man also known as rapper Buck 65 becomes the voice of CBC Radio 2’s endlessly controversial makeover

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