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November 2009

Roger Martin reveals the disappearance of public education investment in Canada; Alex Hutchinson ponders the dangers of widespread GPS use; Carol Shaben investigates the loosening of airline safety standards in Canada; Teun Voeten and Arno Kopecky document Mexico’s drug war; fiction by Steven Heighton…

November 2009 / Politics

Editor’s Note

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

Barack Obama’s efforts to reform American health care have rekindled the debate, here and in the United States, about the relative merits of our two systems. They are starkly different. …

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November 2009 / World

Lessons Learned

November 18, 2009October 11, 2019 - by Graeme Wood

Captain Faizullah and Warrant Officer Guillaume “Ti-Will” Ouellet / Photograph by Graeme Wood The afghan called Teacher is deep in Taliban country, crouching halfway up a mountainside at dawn, listening …

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November 2009

No Confidence

November 18, 2009April 13, 2020 - by Jason Sherman
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November 2009 / Poetry

Ditch

November 18, 2009June 22, 2017 - by Melanie Siebert

Strange how we go on looking in the lessening light, along the highway, looking for the things thieves pitched from the smashed windows of our van as they drove and …

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November 2009

Fly At Your Own Risk

November 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Carol Shaben

Why is Transport Canada moving toward self-regulation for the country’s airlines?

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November 2009

Global Impositioning Systems

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

Is GPS technology actually harming our sense of direction?

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Illustration by Roxanna Bikadoroff
Books / November 2009

The Walrus Reads

November 12, 2009September 13, 2022 - by Jared Bland

Nine fall books of note

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Environment / November 2009

Whalebones

November 12, 2009October 16, 2019 - by David Ng

Saving the remains of the world’s biggest animal

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November 2009 / Society

Virtual Emigration

November 12, 2009October 11, 2019 - by Eliza Reid

Faced with hard times, Icelandic architects are finding work in Canada

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November 2009 / Society

Between the Sheets

November 12, 2009October 11, 2019 - by Adam Sternbergh

Why you should resist the lure of book clubs

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