The Buried Hatchet
begins to biodegrade and—in the style of drums of waste in shallow if not porous graves— poisons the soil beside the river, turning to bilge all of the water you …
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Ken Coates and Bill Morrison detail the uses and abuses of university; Michael Harris profiles Joseph Arvay, Canada’s best interpreter of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Tom Jokinen goes inside the ranks of the new New Democrats; Stacey May Fowles on the hard-luck heroines of Canadian literature; fiction by Michael Crummey…
No Guts, No Glory
This appeared in the October 2012 issue.
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A Palestinian bookseller in Jerusalem wins his public relations campaign
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Water Conscious
Cry in the shower. Save yourself a rainstorm: listen to the basketballs falling tropically on the neighbour’s court. Drop-kick a potted cactus for its dram of ooze. Lick your wounds …
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Civil Warrior
Vancouver lawyer Joseph Arvay is the best interpreter of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. No one, perhaps, has had more influence on contemporary Canadian life and values
Read MoreA Humble Architect
Moshe Safdie has designed buildings around the world for almost fifty years but doesn’t have an identifiable style. His latest work, an Arkansas art museum funded by Walmart heiress Alice Walton, illustrates why it doesn’t matter
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The Uses and Abuses of University
Canada’s post-secondary education system is failing our students, and our economy
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Bugging Out
European fire ants invade BC’s Lower Mainland
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La Province Narcissique
It hardly seems possible, but Quebec is more self-absorbed today than it was fifty years ago
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