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November 2005
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away
if your car could go straight upwards."
- Sir Fred Hoyle, British astrophysicist (1915-2001)
November 2005
Ideological Warfare
by Randy Boyagoda
Why the United States needs opinionated loudmouths…[more]illustration by Raymond Biesinger
Art
Artful Crimes
by Joshua Knelman
Curators call it the Lost Museum, a vast fictional place that houses all the artwork ever stolen…[more]
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Politics
A Tribute Paid to Reason
by Chris Tenove
Cross-examining the legacy of the Nuremberg war-crimes tribunals…[more]
Sightings
To CBC or Not to CBC
by Ken Alexander
In the debate over whether Canada needs a public broadcaster, on the negative side the familiar arguments are…[more]
Urban Affairs
Suburbia’s Last Stand
by Larry Frolick
Ontario wants to force its car-dependent masses into denser neighbourhoods…[more]
Style
Behind the Cotton Curtain
by Tabatha Southey
The hazards of cross-cultural bra shopping…[more]
Detail
African Adventure
by Simon Njami
Curator Simon Njami on the enigmatic work of white South African artist Jane Alexander…[more]
Society
The Wilderness Within
by Adam Gilders
A feral child and the quest to be human: a Fijian odyssey…[more]
Sporting Life
Never on the Rocks
by Bob Ecker
An American oenophile’s guide to curling in Canada…[more]
Fiction
Miss You Already
by Merilyn Simonds
Mary Ann didn’t think she would want the casket open. But when the funeral director led her in and she saw…[more]
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