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…
The Art of Aha
Designer Oki Sato fuses Japanese elegance with just a little SCTV
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Dark Element
A Ukrainian prairie city built in the Soviet era to supply ore for nuclear weapons reckons with the industry’s deadly legacy
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Bhutan takes the next step in democratizing happiness
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Bystanders
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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Aftershock
The girl across the hall goes to Haiti
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Higher Learning
Balancing theory and action at Canada’s first northern university
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Healthy Competition?
The Canada/US rivalry stymies health care reform
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The Shout Doctrine
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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Citizen Saul
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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