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April 2010

Alison Motluk investigates the underground trade in human eggs; Mark Kingwell decries the plague of incivility in Canadian politics; Donald Weber photographs the legacy of uranium mining in the Ukraine; Stephen Henighan profiles Canadian intellectual John Ralston Saul; fiction by Steven Heighton…

April 2010 / Comics

The Proroguey Thing

April 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Jason Sherman
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Photograph by Howie Garber/Getty Images
April 2010 / Education

Hedonic Indicators

April 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Silver Donald Cameron

Bhutan takes the next step in democratizing happiness

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April 2010 / Fiction

Bystanders

April 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Steven Heighton

Air this thin turns anyone into a mystic. Dulling the mind, it dulls distinctions, slurs the border between abstractions—right and wrong—or apparent opposites—dead and alive, past and present, you and …

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April 2010 / First Person

Aftershock

April 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Chris Jones

The girl across the hall goes to Haiti

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April 2010 / Education

Higher Learning

April 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Jessa Gamble

Balancing theory and action at Canada’s first northern university

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April 2010 / Politics

Healthy Competition?

April 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Mindy Hung

The Canada/US rivalry stymies health care reform

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April 2010 / Feature

The Shout Doctrine

April 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Mark Kingwell

What happens when political debates escalate into a culture of arguments, attack ads, and anonymous Internet assaults? A Parliament effectively shut — and shouted — down

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April 2010 / Feature

Citizen Saul

April 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Stephen Henighan

Writer, literary activist, public intellectual, John Ralston Saul is, not accidentally, both a man of the world and an articulate proponent of values he thinks are quintessentially Canadian

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April 2010 / Theatre

The Puppet Master and the Apprentice

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

One of the world’s great puppeteers finds renewal — for himself and his art form — in mentorship

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April 2010 / Arts & Culture

The Art of Aha

April 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Tim McKeough

Designer Oki Sato fuses Japanese elegance with just a little SCTV

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