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January/February 2011

Grant Stoddard visits the lost Canadians of Angle Township, MN; Lisa Gregoire profiles Eva Aariak, the premier of Nunavut; Roger Lemoyne explores one of man’s oldest obsessions in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon; Danielle Groen celebrates fifty years of Coronation Street; fiction by Lawrence Hill…

January/February 2011 / World

Editor’s Note

January 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

Illustration by Jeff KulakIn 1867, when the British North America Act set out the terms of Confederation, most Canadians lived in small towns and villages or on farms. Cities as …

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Photograph by André François
January/February 2011

Portraits of Women in Nunavut

January 12, 2011June 15, 2020 - by André François

A visual companion to Lisa Gregoire’s “Madam Premier”

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Illustration by Ross Macdonald
January/February 2011

The Lost Canadians

January 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Grant Stoddard

They should be living in Manitoba, but due to a map-maker’s error they’re living in Minnesota. The Americans of Angle Township

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January/February 2011

Careful What You Pray For

January 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Jason Sherman

This appeared in the January/February 2011 issue.

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Art by Mirmy Winn
Arts & Culture / January/February 2011

Memento Mirmy

January 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Marcello Di Cintio

The boneyard aesthetic of Vancouver’s Mirmy Winn

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Business / January/February 2011

For Prophet

January 12, 2011October 16, 2019 - by Matt Mossman

What Canada could learn from Islamic finance

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Illustration by Leif Parsons
January/February 2011

The Morgentaler Effect

January 12, 2011May 29, 2020 - by Wayne Sumner

What the champion of reproductive rights has to teach the right-to-die movement

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January/February 2011 / Poetry

Civil and Civic

January 12, 2011July 19, 2017 - by Jonathan Bennett

You talk across periods; I draw on arms with blue pen, The Clash, et cetera. With gall you hang posters, know the slogans. You savour the word disobedience, chew chocolate …

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Image courtesy of ITV Granada Picture Library
January/February 2011

Craving Corrie

January 12, 2011October 23, 2019 - by Danielle Groen

Coronation Street—the quintessentially British soap opera that turns fifty this year—attracts 1.3 million Canadian viewers a night. Why?

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Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ballarat/gift of the King family
January/February 2011 / Politics

The Assassination of the Canadian Kid

January 12, 2011July 16, 2019 - by Justin Robertson

Remembering a little-known hero of Australian independence

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