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January/February 2010

Ron Graham explains why Michael Ignatieff hasn’t knocked our socks off; Gil Shochat delves into the Harper government’s withholding of public information; Alex Hutchinson investigates the unsporting nature of Canada’s Top Secret Olympic research program; fiction by Michael Redhill…

January/February 2010 / Politics

Editor’s Note

January 25, 2010April 15, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

Christina McCall started at Maclean’s in 1956, when writers like Pierre Berton, Peter Gzowski, and Peter C. Newman (whom she later married) roamed the halls. In the world of Canadian …

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January/February 2010

Murph-E

January 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Jason Sherman
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January/February 2010 / Media

Station Break

January 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Ralph S. Misener

The dawn of private broadcasting

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Arts & Culture / January/February 2010

Moose Flu

January 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Kevin Chong

A modest proposal from a concerned citizen

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January/February 2010 / Society

The People’s Poll

January 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Leigh Kamping-Carder

A new way to gauge public opinion

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Image courtesy of the Canadian Press
January/February 2010 / Justice

What Thunder Bay Burned

January 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Nick Mount

And how Lady Chatterley wrote our obscenity law

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January/February 2010

In the Clearing

January 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Adam Makarenko

Revisiting his hometown in a photographic series of miniature dioramas, the artist presents life and death in northwestern Ontario, writ small

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Fiction / January/February 2010

Breaking Fast

January 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Michael Redhill

She’s ordered the quiche, two pancakes with local maple syrup, and then, a few minutes ago, she went back up to the counter and ordered a bag of day-old lemon cream scones

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January/February 2010 / Poetry

Cruelty

January 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Sara Peters

When I was eleven, I watched my cousin slice up a gopher with the serrated top of a tin can. I see this cousin now: the type of woman who …

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Books / January/February 2010

Right of Passage

January 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Will the promise of the Northwest Passage finally be realized?

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