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March 2006
"Who's 'im, Bill?/ A Stranger!/ 'Eave 'arf a brick at 'im."
- Punch, British humour magazine, February 25, 1854
March 2006
The HIV Resurgence
by Brent Preston
Complacency is proving deadly in the fight against HIV/AIDS…[more]
Culture
Repress Yourself
by Alison Gillmor
Where emotions are concerned the new slogan is: Turn off, Lay low, Shut up…[more]
Urban Affairs
Hong Kong Goes King Kong
by Don Gillmor
Economic prosperity fuels a rivalry between Hong Kong and Mainland China…[more]
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Essay
The Angel of Now
by Chris Dewdney
A meditation on the nature of time and a visit from an owl…[more]
Field Notes
Camp Nowhere
by Siri Agrell
—Somewhere in the Middle East, sparkling in the desert sun, is a piece of Canada no one can really explain. It is a single plastic tiara,…[more]
National Affairs
Soldiers Not Peacekeepers
by Sean Maloney
We are at war. Will Canada admit it?…[more]
Society
Identity Crisis
by Allan Gregg
Multiculturalism: A twentieth-century dream becomes a twenty-first-century conundrum…[more]
Books
It’s a Porn World After All
by Charles Foran
Commercial concupiscence consumes global culture…[more]
Detail
Grubstreet Chiaroscuro
by Tom Hunter
British photographer Tom Hunter finds classical inspiration on tawdry headlines…[more]
Sightings
The Empty Middle
by Ken Alexander
By Saturday, January 7, 2005, the Jane Creba memorial—small bouquets, compassionate poems, candles—had…[more]
Film
Hijacking History
by Steve Vineberg
Moral ambiguity reigns in Capote, Munich and Good Morning, Night…[more]
Fiction
Water Spider
by Randy Boyagoda
He laughed at what passed for tragedy in his new country. Last week, the body of a little girl was found pressed…[more]
Field Notes
Shades of Greenpeace
by John Turner
amsterdam — An unseasonable rain pours down onto our Mercedes-Benz as it winds around Amsterdam’s…[more]
Field Notes
Hot Jazz in Cold Wars
by David Sax
havana—“The next performance will be Tightrope,” says the announcer, “who will play…[more]
Fashion
Fauxclusivity
by Tim McKeough
Major labels are cultivating indie mystique by playing hard to get…[more]
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