Modern Primitive
Survivorman’s Les Stroud taps into our twenty-first-century malaise and finds TV gold
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Marni Jackson considers why parents can’t let go of their adult children; Gordon Laird studies Indira Samarasekera, president of the University of Alberta; J.B. MacKinnon describes our environment as “A 10 Percent World”; Daniel Baird explores the Toronto International Film Festival’s new home; fiction by David Bergen…
Follow the Leader
A friend and colleague remembers Pierre Trudeau
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No One Can Hear You Scream
At Mars on Earth, on Canada’s Devon Island, researchers prepare for space travel’s worst dangers
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Brazilian Blind Spot
The Brazilians have lately been looking north for opportunities. For our own good, we ought to return the favour
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The Perfect Partner
Why doubles player Daniel Nestor could be tennis’s greatest hope
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The Canadian School
A new generation of designers marries the local with the avant-garde
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The Work of Art
Dany Laferrière once yearned to be well known. Some twenty books later, he’d rather be widely read
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City of Cinema
The Toronto International Film Festival’s vaulting ambition to create a world-class centre for film
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Cottage Country
10-cane rum and I’m all sun inside. Children in shrink-wrap-tight swimsuits. Cigar boats burning by. Our aluminum’s hoist-high in dry-dock, tonsilled in the mouth of the boathouse, its conked outboard …
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This appeared in the September 2010 issue.
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