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FEATURES

The eye of the storm

Editor’s note by Graham F. Scott [Read more]

The case for all-black schools

Africentric schools could be the key to success for a generation at risk. (Just don't call it segregation)
By Andrew Wallace [Read more]

All disquiet on the western front

One skeptic's report from deep inside the military journalism complex
By Ashley Walters [Read more]

Undone

Hundreds of sexual assault cases each year are labeled "unfounded" by Canadian police departments. Vicims and advocates are demanding answers.
By Jennifer O'Connor [Read more]


THIS & THAT

Profile: Art attack
Quebec duo ATSA celebrate ten years of artistic shock and awe By Tim McSorley

Easily missed: Reclaiming reality
Oil sands reclamation projects are more talk than action By Matt Jones

Whatever happened to: The anti-nuke movement?
A dormant movement is stirring again as new plants hit the drawing board By William Stodalka

Argument: A few good men
Many "men's rights" arguments are thinly veiled misogyny. But not all. By Alex Molotkow

List: All tomorrow's parties
This vancouver group promotes a very different kind of bash By Michelle Miller

Graphic: Caught in the web
Repressive regimes are increasingly crackign down on blogging provocateurs By Daniel Tseghay

Politics: Please look after this bear
Will Ukraine be the next battleground in the New Cold War? By Mark McKinnon

Economics: Unnatural resources
Oil and gas wealth threatens to unbalance an already precarious economic situation By Robin Boadway

Feminism: "Sexism" sells out
Crying wolf when the term doesn't fit won't help women By Jennifer Crump

ARTS & IDEAS

Profile: Hollywood Indian
Terrance Houle finds subversive comedy in bannock, bingo, and buckskin By Lia Grainger

Campaign: A book club built for two
Just what is Stephen Harper reading? By Dominique Jarry-Shore

Read This: So Orwell, Tesla, and Atwood walk into a bar...
Kate Beaton's hilarious histories By Alex Redgrave

Books: Real dirty laundry
Two ripped-from-the-headlines novels surpass biography By Kerry Clare

Film: Bon cop, bad times
Too many Canadian filmgoers overlook their own backyard By Jason Anderson

Web: Blogging is so 2008
Users are finding other ways to overshare as the medium grows up and sells out By Chandler Levack

Then & now: Net benefits
The social safety net as we know it took decades to evolve By Lynn Cunningham

Letters to the editor



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