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December 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…

Art by Daniel Arsham
December 2010 / Memoir

Approximate Directions to a Burial

December 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Dave Cameron

A son retraces his father’s death

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Illustration by Marlena Zuber
December 2010 / Fiction

Hard Currency

December 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Deborah Willis

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
December 2010 / Feature

Auditing the Auditor General

December 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by John Gray

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
December 2010 / Feature

The Question Remains

December 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Pasha Malla

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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December 2010 / Poetry

The Trick

December 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Julie Bruck

Blinking in the half-light, almost bright after the school’s dim corridors, we’d pass the line of poplars, tall black sentries at the outer limits of the play field. Street lights …

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Comics / December 2010

Sleep Tight

December 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by Jason Sherman

This appeared in the December 2010 issue.

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Last Stand in Kandahar
December 2010 / Feature

Last Stand in Kandahar

December 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Matthieu Aikins

Can the military’s massive counterinsurgency gamble salvage the Afghan war?

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December 2010 / Photography

Tony Romano

December 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by Lee Henderson

Waiting for Blue (2010)

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Illustration by Patrick Kyle
December 2010 / Society

Kingdom Come

December 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Suzannah Showler

Can Halifax’s Shambhala Buddhist community keep the faith?

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December 2010 / World

Deeply Embedded

December 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Chris Tenove

The Guardian’s Katine Project may be the future of international correspondence

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