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The Envoy

Mark Carney has a plan

Bubble Weary in Trump's America

A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation

On Familiar Spirits

A senator warns against another witch hunt

Stephen Schneider

Stephen Schneider is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary’s University. He is the author of four books, including his latest, Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada, which was published in 2009 by John Wiley and Sons.

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Our Healthiest Industry?

Organized crime is flourishing in Canada, just as it always has January–February 2010
“Smuggling on the Canadian border.”“Counterfeiting gang caught.”“No escape from bloody mafia.”“Big drug seizure.”“Police hold six men for questioning in gang slaying.”“Canada in the bookies’ web.” We have become more than accustomed to the urgent and incessant headlines about organized crime. In the last year, for instance, we have learned that Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of…