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Big Brother No More
Ontario’s and Canada’s interests are no longer identical.
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An Exaggerated Demise
Boosted by still-thriving industry, Ontario is headed for an economic renaissance.
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Cinderella City
How Hogtown transformed itself into one of the world’s great cultural capitals.
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A Slippery Debate
A review of Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands, by Ezra Levant
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Canada’s Boswell
A review of Peter Gzowski: A Biography, by R.B. Fleming
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Coming to Gold Mountain
A review of The Year of Finding Memory, by Judy Fong Bates, The Geography of Arrival, by George Sipos, and Alice Street, by Richard Valeriote
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Parsing Pandemics
A review of Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894–1901, by Myron Echenberg, and SARS Unmasked: Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada, by Michael G. Tyshenko, with assistance from Cathy Paterson
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Women at Risk
A review of Lost Girls: Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence, by Nicholas Terpstra
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Love Isn’t a Truck
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The Drummer
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Desire
A poem
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What I Would Give to You
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Letters
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Storms Are Easy, Marriage Is Hard
A review of The Carnivore, by Mark Sinnett
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Into the Phantom Zone
A review of The Amazing Absorbing Boy, by Rabindranath Maharaj
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Ottawa’s Greatest Mandarin
A review of Behind the Scenes: The Life and Work of William Clifford Clark, by Robert A. Wardhaugh
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From Wedding Cake to Music Garden
A review of Creating Memory: A Guide to Outdoor Public Sculpture in Toronto, by John Warkentin
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Wild Painters
A review of Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art by Iris Nowell
Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Isabel Foo.
Isabel Foo is a Toronto-based graphic designer who also loves to draw. See more of her work at www.jemappelleisabel.com.