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Understand your world better through these thoughtful and relevant essays and reportage on history, society, and culture.

October 2008

Child’s Play

by Michel Arseneault

Why hasn’t Quebec re-established a minimum age for employment?

Grim Repo

by Charles Montgomery

Speculator behaviour is ravaging cities. Can we resist the hot deal?

The First Little Mosque on the Prairie

by Guy Saddy

A Canadianized version of Islam once flourished out west. Can it take root again?


September 2008

Bomb That Brush

by Margo Pfeiff

Renegade retirees

The Anti-Socialite

by Denis Seguin

Life with an Asperger’s child

Frontier Families

by Matthew Hays

The complexities of queer parenthood

Close to the Bone

by Matthew Fishbane

Searching for justice in Colombia

The People’s Court

by Alex Hutchinson

Doctors are paid for through our taxes. Why not lawyers? Alex Hutchinson examines a case for universal legal care

Review: What Is America?

by Daniel Baird

America’s genocidal history, as discussed in Ronald Wright’s new book

The Other Darwin

by Mark Czarnecki

The nineteenth-century naturalist gets emotional

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