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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A 10 Percent World
Our Earth reflects just one-tenth the biological variety and abundance it once did. What happened?
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Pravda and Other Words for Truth
V.I. Lenin’s long journey from revolutionary hero to icon of kitsch
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The Matter with Morris
Morris Schutt, aged fifty-one, was a syndicated journalist, well liked and read by many, who wrote a weekly column in which he described the life of a fifty-one-year-old man who …
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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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