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November 2011

Amazon of the North

November 12, 2011May 1, 2017 - by Eamon Mac Mahon

It’s the world’s largest storehouse of carbon and unfrozen fresh water. Why Canada must give the boreal forest room to breathe

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Fiction / January/February 2011

Meet You at the Door

January 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Lawrence Hill

I had been typing since I was thirteen. On my mother’s L.C. Smith, my friend Howie and I made up our own Typing Olympics

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October 2010

The Last Great Water Fight

October 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Chris Wood

The battle for the northern headwaters of the Mackenzie River

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Photograph by Ruth Kaplan
September 2010

Office of the President

September 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Gordon Laird

For University of Alberta’s Indira Samarasekera, running a university is an exercise in high-stakes risk management

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Environment / June 2010

Cold Blood

June 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Kevin Chong

Since 2002, Alberta’s wild horses have been picked off with brutal abandon. Who is responsible?

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March 2010 / Science

Bird Calling

March 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Marcello Di Cintio

Captivated by an endangered avian species, the former director of the Calgary Zoo becomes the world’s foremost expert in its propagation

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May 2009 / Society

Brisebois Drive

May 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Aritha van Herk

In our noisy, wired age, the bit players of history are consigned to oblivion

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November 2006 / Society

Alberta’s Gamble with Gambling

November 12, 2006January 4, 2020 - by Andrew Nikiforuk

The “crack cocaine” of gaming hooks a senior mandarin—and the provincial treasury

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September 2006

The True West, Strong and Free

September 12, 2006April 14, 2020 - by Allan Gregg

What will Canada’s richest province do with its new-found power?

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December 2005/January 2006

A Gentle Revolution

December 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by Monte Paulsen

All they wanted was to slow the pace of development in their territory. But by the time their 254-day sit-in concluded, the elders had reshaped the Tahltan Nation

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