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FEATURES
The times they are a-changin’
Editor’s note by Jessica Johnston [Read more]
“O” Canada
Eight Canadians weigh in on what an Obama presidency would mean north of the 49th parallel
By Judy Rebick, Doug Saunders, Rinaldo Walcott, Michael Byers, Jordan Heath-Rawlings, Dru Oja Jay, Garrett Zehr, Steve Murray
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Where the buffalo roam
Why are Canadian farmers struggling to make a living when food is in short supply and prices are skyrocketing?
By Margaret Webb
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After “the apology”
With the launch of our Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools, Canada joins countries such as East Timor and South Africa, struggling with human-rights violations too big for the courts. It will span five years and cost $60-million, but will it help?
By Catherine Rolfsen
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THIS & THAT
Profile:
Carbon copying
Tim Harvey proves it’s possible to go fuel free
By Lauren McKeon
Easily missed:
Teaching genocide
One school board gets a lesson in definitions
By Melita Kuburas
WTF?
Harping on freedom
Graphic:
It’s the end of the world as we know it...
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By Melissa Wilson
List:
Three ways to build a better human
By Robert Near
Whatever happened to:
Overpopulation? Pop goes the world
Can there be too many people?
By Garrett Zehr
Environment:
A way without the will
Bad choices lead to bad outcomes
By Zoe Cormier
Economics:
The way the world works
Our economic future lies in the politics we play
By Jim Stanford
FICTION & POETRY
The Bitter Warmth Fiction by John Lavery
Two poems
Poetry by Matthew Tierny
The Eclipse Chaser
Admittance
Two poems
Poetry by Suzanne Robertson
Flying
To the Point
ARTS & IDEAS
Profile:
As seen on TV
Toronto video artist changes the channel
By Melissa Wilson
Web comic:
Hard truths in “A Softer World”
By Sarah Colgrove
Hide and seek:
Where’s Waldo?
By Liivi Sandy
Read This:
Jeremiah, Ohio
by Adam Sol
Review by Nicholas Bradley
Books:
Little lessons
Cory Doctorow’s Nineteen Eighty-Four homage is too cool for school
By John Degen
Television:
Changing places
Character development, American style
By Jason Anderson
Web:
E-bama
Why Barack is the kids’ new bicycle
By Chandler Levack
Then & now:
Are we poor yet?
Reading the signs of economic downturn
By Lynn Cunningham
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