On Tipping in Cuba
In which the writer discovers the uncomfortable socio-macroeconomics of the cheap beach vacation
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Goin’ Down the Road
In which the writer recalls a lifetime of Trans-Canada road trips, first with her parents, then with her family, and, with her nest now empty, alone with her husband. Is this the end of something or the beginning?
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The Boomerang Effect
How did the forever young generation turn into perpetual parents?
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The Flight Album
When in doubt, there’s always New York
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Citizen Saul
Writer, literary activist, public intellectual, John Ralston Saul is, not accidentally, both a man of the world and an articulate proponent of values he thinks are quintessentially Canadian
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Three Meals in Afghanistan
In cities and villages alike, a country seeking change clings tightly to its past
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Is giving young Jews a taste of the homeland the best way to save Judaism?
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Forty-Five
Arriving at the age of looking back
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God’s Dancing Lessons
Notes on survival in Siberia
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