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From cars to clothing to condos, the masses in Canada have developed a taste for the sumptuous—but not everything is quite as it seems

Lasting peace in Afghanistan won’t just need talks with the Taliban. It will also require rescuing a shattered Pashtun culture

Svetlana Alliluyeva spent a lifetime trying to escape the shadow of her father. Patricia Treble speaks to her biographer, Rosemary Sullivan

Fear of organized crime led to a ban on Saskatchewan’s strip clubs. But there was really only one: the small-town Codette Hotel.

Out of fashion for centuries, poets have been patient. And sometimes it pays off.

Inside the private journals of the most entitled, hardest-working, Swiss Chalet-lovingest man in Ottawa

Our Ottawa bureau parses MacKay’s exit speech, and the Prime Minister’s farewell

Like his father before him, MacKay showed how deferring to one’s superiors is a fantastic way of gaining and retaining power

Charlie Gillis on the risks and rewards of time spent on the sidelines

His romantic escapades captured the national imagination—yet his time in office was shadowed by a larger ’women problem’, writes Anne Kingston