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BY MEG GRAHAM Gina Charlton is drawing a blank. “This is the way the world ends!” she reads. “Not with a bang but with… ” Charlton shuffles through her options.…
AUTHOR:MEG GRAHAM
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1581 words)

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Justin Trudeau checks notes on his iPad as he takes part in the Liberal Leadership debate in Mississauga Ont., Saturday, February 16, 2013. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young)
PUBLISHED: March 5, 2013
LENGTH: 1 minutes (255 words)

Spirit Guide

LETTER FROM ISLAY about the Bruichladdich whisky distillery. In 2000, Mark Reynier, a third-generation wine dealer from London, put together fifty investors, who paid six and a half million pounds…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 11, 2013
LENGTH: 1 minutes (410 words)

Canada's Millennials: A Generation Interrupted

Call it Generation Interrupted. Bystanders to the economic train wreck of the Great Recession, members of Generation Y have acutely suffered the aftershocks and a painful recovery four years in the…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3901 words)

When the Nerds Go Marching In

President Obama's reelection campaign brought 40 engineers into their ranks to build the technology they needed to get the president reelected. This is the very human story of how they helped out,…
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7006 words)
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In Search of the Living, Purring, Singing Heart of the Online Cat-Industrial Complex | Underwire

PUBLISHED: Aug. 31, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1020 words)

Keystone, by John H. Richardson

Tar-sands field, Alberta: Only about 20 percent of the deposits are within seventy-five meters of the surface, so the extraction process utterly transforms the landscape. Here, the massive tailings…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 10, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3335 words)

The Invention of Jaywalking

Library of Congress It happened again the other night. This time, the driver of a Jaguar traveling down 42nd Street in Manhattan struck another car and lost control, flipping onto the sidewalk and…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1085 words)

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