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Claim Game

The high stakes of fraudulent identity

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

Michelle Shephard

Michelle Shephard is the national security correspondent for The Toronto Star and author of Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone (Douglas and McIntyre, 2011) and Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr (Wiley, 2008).

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The World Turns

Facing the threat of terrorism, countries of all kinds take a walk on the dark side December 2011
They were the two words that came to signify much of the decade—and the debate about the decade—that followed. The “dark side” was where former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney famously described we were headed after the September 11, 2001, attacks jolted the world. “We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will,” Cheney mused to host Tim Russert on NBC’s Meet the