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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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Comics / January/February 2010

Murph-E

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

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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Feature / January/February 2010

Faster, Higher, Sneakier

January 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Alex Hutchinson

Does Canada’s “Top Secret” sports technology program undermine the Olympic spirit?

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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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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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Photograph by Christopher Wahl
Feature / January/February 2010

The Stranger Within

January 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Ron Graham

Who is Michael Ignatieff? Why does he want to run the country? And does he have what it takes, not only to defeat Stephen Harper, but also—first things first—to bring peace to his own party?

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Arts & Culture / January/February 2010

Back in the Hall

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

No one made sketch comedy, that most Canadian of comic forms, like the Kids in the Hall — which makes their return to television a big deal

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January/February 2010 / Television

Bloodletting

January 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Charles Foran

Vincent Lam’s miraculous book goes under the knife for television

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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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