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You Can’t Run Away from Homesickness

November 18, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Melissa J. Gismondi

What it means to miss home in our globalized, climate-changed world

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Illustration by Veronaa
Politics

Canada’s Place in an Unreliable World

May 29, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Stephen Marche

As the old alliances falter, the time has come for Canadians to start looking out for ourselves

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Books / July/August 2012

From the Middle East, but No Longer of It

July 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Jeet Heer

Journalists Nahlah Ayed and Kamal Al-Solaylee publish culturally informed memoirs criticizing the rise of political Islam in their ancestral homelands

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Illustration by Leeay Aikawa
October 2005

Containing China

October 12, 2005May 11, 2020 - by Gwynne Dyer

The United States is drawing a military noose around China, and India is glad to help. But is anyone considering the possible consequences?

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Books / October 2005

Who Killed Globalization?

October 12, 2005May 11, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

Was it Colonel Bush in the kitchen with a gun? Mr. Nike in the Gym with a blunt instrument? Sir Ralston Saul in his study with a sharp pencil?

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July/August 2005 / Politics

The Dictator Debt Catch

July 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Paul Webster

A US-brokered deal to forgive billions in Iraqi debt is causing other countries to say “me too,” even as some Iraqis wish they’d said “no thanks.”

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December 2004/January 2005

Who Controls Canada’s Arctic?

December 12, 2004May 4, 2020 - by Andrea Mandel-Campbell

Spies, submarines, and foreign ships may signal
that our claim to the North is melting

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February/March 2004 / Politics

Georgia on My Mind

February 12, 2004May 14, 2022 - by Katerina Cizek

Political upheaval and Georgian tradition in Tbilisi

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Is the West Rearming Russia?
November/December 2003

Is the West Rearming Russia?

November 12, 2003March 13, 2022 - by Paul Webster

Ottawa and the G-8 might be financing a new nuclear storehouse

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October 2003 / World

Jordan First

October 12, 2003April 29, 2020 - by David Berlin

A liberal reformist in the Middle East

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