Approximate Directions to a Burial
A son retraces his father’s death
Read MoreDecember 2010
Matthieu Aikins asks if the military’s massive counterinsurgency gamble can salvage the Afghan war; John Gray audits Canada’s Auditor General, Sheila Fraser; Jeet Heer explores Stuart McLean’s kind-hearted universe; Dave Cameron writes a heart-breaking memoir about his father’s death; fiction by Deborah Willis…
Hard Currency
The last time Alexei paid for sex, he was eighteen years old. How’s that for a beginning, a secret, the truth? It had been his eighteenth birthday, only weeks before …
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Auditing the Auditor General
After almost ten years on the job, Sheila Fraser is preparing to step down. Her tenure was not without its controversy, but no one in Ottawa any longer questions her toughness
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The Question Remains
Lost amid the violence and sensationalism of this year’s G20 summit in Toronto was an issue few wanted to confront: what if the black bloc protesters had a point?
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Sleep Tight
This appeared in the December 2010 issue.
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Last Stand in Kandahar
Can the military’s massive counterinsurgency gamble salvage the Afghan war?
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Tony Romano
Waiting for Blue (2010)
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Kingdom Come
Can Halifax’s Shambhala Buddhist community keep the faith?
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Deeply Embedded
The Guardian’s Katine Project may be the future of international correspondence
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