As a storm-lopped tree
As a storm-lopped tree corrects its shape over a few green seasons, so time closes around the hole in itself left by the terrible event. (in the quiet room suddenly …
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A House Divided
A young writer takes a surreal road trip through Israel and the West Bank in search of a legendary house where an Arab and a Jew live together in peace. NMA nominee: Essays
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Good to Go
A military-run course designed to prepare reporters for combat
raises some thorny questions about journalistic ethics
Once Upon a Country
In Stéphane Dion the Liberals have a new narrator and perhaps a hero. All now depends on the story he tells and how the Canadian everyman reacts. A walk through the streets of the Liberal imagination, where fortunes rise and fall and Stephen Harper lies in wait, ready to pounce
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Separate and Unequal
Money for crimes committed at residential schools may be forthcoming, but problems with the reserve system remain
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Ringo’s Drum Roll
(or, lessons in living on a modest talent)
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First on the Hill
The story of modern skiing owes much to Quebec’s Laurentians
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Gertrude Stein’s Radical Grammar
“Revolting” question marks, codependent commas, and the apostrophes that speak to our weakness
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Veils for Western Women
Beauty burkas and vanity veils. NMA nominee: Humour
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Against the Grain
At an international cook-off in Sicily,
judging couscous proves a rough business
