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Montreal’s new crime brokers need to be flexible
Montreal’s underworld is experiencing a change the likes of which has not been seen in nearly three decades, say experts on organized crime.
It is a gloriously sunny spring day, a warm breeze caresses
me, sidewalk strollers are carefree and smiling, but once again I
find myself gazing through the window at the couple of dozen furtive
faces inside. I glance at the players nearest the window, checking
out body language, then examine the position on the board, trying to
quickly suss out who's winning, then back to the faces for clues on
swagger or worry, then back to the almighty board with a deep gaze
to see whether I could win or defend the position.
Some scientists now believe human beings were made to have fun. So what stops us? In The Gazette’s second Science of Fun series, Albert Nerenberg looks at the enemies of fun – the Fun-Busters.
Taking on the Jim Crow media
Ishmael Reed has a nice way with words, but isn’t much given to verbal niceties, like pussyfooting around the N-word. He puts it right up front, on the cover of his latest volume of bristling essays on the state of American society.
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Green: within our grasp
Alex Aylett has been thinking a lot lately about the 20-minute neighbourhood, a post-modern urban village where everything you really need - from food and drink to parks, schools and the latest movie - is a short walk or a zippy bike ride from your house.
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For sale: One farm
David and Robert Cameron of suburban Hudson remember the day they decided to get out of dairy farming in the Montreal metropolitan region. The year was 1993. And the day was when they learned their milk quota had been cut back 12 per cent, under provincial supply-management decrees.
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Our forgotten soldiers
The first time John Burstall went to Korea he rode overnight in the windowless cattle car of a train that was attacked several times by Chinese and North Korean forces as it carried Canadian troops to the front lines of a major international war.
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Haiti re-builders wonder: what now?
How do you rebuild a devastated city? How do you remove the rubble, put in new water pipes, electric lines and sewage drains, build homes, buildings, schools and hospitals, and at the same time house all the homeless?
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Shaughnessy Village: Life among the ruins
Jim McHugh didn't see them coming. Three undercover police officers dressed like skaters rushed into the glass kiosk that serves as an entrance to Atwater métro station in Cabot Square and caught him red-handed with a lit cigarette in his hand.
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An ancestral voice revived
It's shortly before 7 p.m. on Monday when the participants in a unique experiment in Canadian culture start filing into a classroom on this tiny reserve at the north end of Quebec City.
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It’s hard to be hopeful in Haiti
Heartbreaking. That’s the word that keeps coming to mind when I think of Haiti.
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Harassment at work: Five women fight back
When the women were asked questions during a job interview about their favourite alcoholic drink, their preferred swear word and how they felt about political incorrectness, they found it a bit strange.
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Niqab: The new flashpoint
As a devout Muslim who wore a hijab, or head scarf, Miriam Abushaban was used to having strangers tell her: "Go back to your own country!"
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