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Chartered Fight

When provinces and the bench butt heads

In Little Jamaica

Stories from a changing neighbourhood

The Devil Is in the Details

Canada’s legalization of marijuana raises a host of policy and health questions

Anne Innis Dagg

Anne Innis Dagg is a biologist teaching at the University of Waterloo and author of “Love of Shopping” Is Not a Gene: Problems with Darwinian Psychology (Black Rose Books, 2005).

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Do Genetics Really Tell The Tale?

Boys who underachieve do well. Girls who do well underachieve. Why? June 2008
This is an interesting but odd book, with an awkward title that reflects its inner dissonance. It has two main themes that are little related except for their presumed genetic basis. Actually, it documents a number of paradoxes: That female brains have a more balanced structure leading to stability than do male brains, yet males rule the…