Probes

Cabinet of Curiosities

By Norbert Ruebsaat | July 10, 2014

Norbert Ruebsaat stops in London to make sure he’s got the right Rosetta Stone in sight.

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An Independent Newsroom Where Self-Censorship Rules

By Daniel Gawthrop | June 1, 2014

Dan Gawthrop reports from Burma. The post-dictatorship press looks “independent,” but what about the big story on which it is tip-toeing the government line?

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Ukraine: Here’s Facebooking at You, Kid

By Stan Persky | May 20, 2014

A little Facebook music please: transcript of a social media conversation about current events.

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Jim Flaherty’s State Funeral

By Brian Fawcett | April 26, 2014

Brian Fawcett isn’t convinced there should have been a State Funeral for former Harper Government Finance Minister Jim Flaherty

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Crisis in Ukraine: it’s hard to tell the players, even with a scorecard, and a bunch of hyperlinks.

By Stan Persky | March 9, 2014

Stan Persky tries to sort out the strands in the Ukrainian web.

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The Lady, the Cult, and the Dented Halo

By Daniel Gawthrop | March 7, 2014

Dan Gawthrop on the future of Myanmar, and its internationally renowned political figure, Aung San Suu Kyi, “The Lady.”

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Orwell’s Nightmare: 75 Years Later

By Stan Persky | February 7, 2014

Seventy-five years after its publication, Stan Persky takes note of George Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia,” and its anniversary.

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Pages I Have Trouble With 3: Grappa

By George Bowering | October 5, 2013

George Bowering finds a pronoun in the wrong seat on an airliner, placed there by a writer who should know better.

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David Gilmour Steps in it. Or Maybe Everyone Else Has.

By Brian Fawcett | September 26, 2013

Brian Fawcett doesn’t find David Gilmour’s disinterest in teaching women writers criminal. What bothers him is the hysterical response to it.

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Ice Cream

By Norbert Ruebsaat | September 1, 2013

Norbert Ruebsaat on the boy who didn’t like ice cream.

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