Viral Agent
A forgotten weapon for the post-antibiotic era
Read MoreJuly/August 2014
Summer Reading: fresh takes on old crimes by Mark Callanan, Jessica Grant, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Stephen Marche, and Alexandra Oliver; assessing risk in the aftermath of Lac-Mégantic; John Lorinc investigates police shootings of people with mental illnesses; Noah Richler studies a fisherman from Digby accused of smuggling cocaine into Spain…
The Trials of Philip Halliday
Did an out-of-work fisherman from Digby knowingly smuggle one and a half tons of cocaine into Spain?
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Watching the Cop Show in Bed
Apparently, it’s very, very bad to let a well-dressed man into your home. An Oxbridge accent, coupled with the claim your husband’s hurt, and he’s from Scotland Yard: disaster! When …
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Ultrasound
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 representing “of no interest to me” and 10 representing “of maximum interest to me,” the rapes in my neighbourhood rated a …
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Stand Down
All too often, the victims of police shootings are people with mental illness. One American city has found a solution
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The Pen and the Sword
Revisiting the culture wars over World War I
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Care and Feeding of the Amish
It took the class some doing to ambush, tackle, and finally capture the boy. They hid themselves on a stretch of the 62 just north of Ivanhoe and waited, giggling …
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Two hundred years later, the treasure hunters of Oak Island are still looking
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