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April 2011

Atif Rafay explores the meaning of freedom from within his prison cell; Michael Posner profiles Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright; Alison Motluk investigates the government’s exit from the production of medical isotopes; Alex Hutchinson ponders what will happen when computers become smarter than people; fiction by David Bezmozgis…

April 2011 / Environment

Editor’s Note

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

Illustration by Joel KimmelIn an essay in this magazine last September, J.B. MacKinnon argued that one of the obstacles we face in measuring environmental degradation is short-sightedness. We observe changes …

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April 2011 / Books

Intelligence Deficit

April 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Alex Hutchinson

What will happen when computers become smarter than people?

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April 2011 / Society

Mosque Makeovers

April 12, 2011September 9, 2021 - by Matt Mossman

Reimagining a sacred space

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April 2011

Yesterday’s Canadian

April 12, 2011June 24, 2020 - by Charles Foran

Letting go of the French-English duality

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April 2011 / Poetry

Dogwalker’s Law

April 12, 2011July 20, 2017 - by Linda Besner

The Korean chatelaine who claims she never boffed her former dogwalker (and blots her creamy affidavit swearing theirs a chaste relationship) is perjuring: if she didn’t, she should have, as …

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April 2011

This Just In

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

By Jason Sherman, Drawn by David ParkinsThis appeared in the April 2011 issue.

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Photograph by Reuters/Mark Blanch
April 2011 / Society

To Pot

April 12, 2011August 7, 2021 - by Matthew McKinnon

Legalizing marijuana would benefit everyone: cops, taxpayers, and victims of crime. Everyone, that is, but the stoners

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Illustration by Doublenaut
April 2011

A Political Meltdown

April 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Alison Motluk

For decades, Canada has been a world leader in the production of medical isotopes. So why did the government announce that it was dumping the entire program?

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Illustration by Marie Lessard
April 2011

Mister Right

April 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Michael Posner

How has Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper’s new chief of staff, reached the top of the business and political worlds without making enemies?

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April 2011 / Science

The Species Problem

April 12, 2011July 17, 2019 - by Allison Martell

What do you get when you cross a polar bear with a grizzly?

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