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Is it time to eliminate the middleman in public education?
V.I. Lenin’s long journey from revolutionary hero to icon of kitsch
Ideas | by Medeine Tribinevicius
The Toronto International Film Festival’s vaulting ambition to create a world-class centre for film
Film | by Daniel Baird
Survivorman’s Les Stroud taps into our twenty-first-century malaise and finds TV gold
Essay | by Nicholas Hune-Brown
Sticks and Stones, Can’t Buy Me Love, Performance Anxiety, and Barbarism Begins at Home
Letters | by The Walrus Readers
Happiness, he discovers, is uneasy to find
Fiction | by David Bergen
Dany Laferrière once yearned to be well known. Some twenty books later, he’d rather be widely read
Books | by Marianne Ackerman
Our natural world is a fraction of what it was before the mass culls and oil spills of the human era. To imagine how it once was is not to lament, but to picture what it can be again
For University of Alberta’s Indira Samarasekera, running a university is an exercise in high-stakes risk management
A new generation of designers marries the local with the avant-garde
Fashion | by Jessica Johnson
At Mars on Earth, on Canada’s Devon Island, researchers prepare for space travel’s worst dangers
Frontier | by Ivan Hansen
How did the forever young generation turn into perpetual parents?
Society | by Marni Jackson
A boomerang child relives her first, pathetic flight from home
The Brazilians have lately been looking north for opportunities. For our own good, we ought to return the favour
Essay | by Christopher Frey
Why doubles player Daniel Nestor could be tennis’s greatest hope
Profile | by Andrew Clark
