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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

Joan Barfoot

Joan Barfoot’s eleventh novel, Exit Lines, was published in 2008 by Knopf Canada. Previous novels have been nominated for the Man Booker and Scotiabank Giller prizes.

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Mystery and Ambiguity

A writer excavates an unsolved crime in Saskatchewan June 2008
I have a friend with whom it has become customary, after sharing an occasional dinner, to then share a movie. Regularly this is a DVD of a film we’ve never heard of, and almost as regularly at its end we will turn to each other and say, “Well. Wasn’t that an odd little flick?” This is not to be confused with “My…