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...Louis Riel by Chester Brown (Drawn & Quarterly; 2003) Through this interpretive biography of a 19th-century Canadian rabble-rouser and mystic - with every deviance from recorded history carefully detailed in footnotes - Brown explores themes of abuse of authority, madness vs. religious exaltation and the nature of objective truth. That he tells it in the style of big-nosed comic strip characters makes it all the more remarkable. Full Review
Hunt finds alternate ways to practice language. “Spanish is an everyday language for me,” he says. A network of Italian e-mail penpals has helped his Italian improve “dramatically.” His eyes glisten as he describes his Canadian experiences: “If I go to Quebec, French is ever so much a part of me, ever so much more a part of me,” he says fervently. “It’s—it’s in my ears, on the street...
...speech accepting the leadership of the party took a while to get going, and his biggest applause line - hey, this is Canada - came when he said, "I will keep the promise of universal and high-quality health care." At 65, he has become a quintessential figure of the Canadian establishment, a millionaire shipping magnate whose father, a stalwart of the Liberal Party, very nearly became Prime Minister himself in the 1960s. Yet the anticipation that he will bring a new energy to Canadian politics is palpable. If ever a politician risked being a prisoner of high expectations, Paul Martin does...
...Martin told TIME that his government will conduct a quick review of foreign and military policy. He insists that Canadians, after a long period of introspection during which they were obsessed with interminable debates over their constitutional structures, are ready to look outward once more. "The old sense of insecurities about the Canadian identity," he says, "have been replaced by increasing confidence, pride and ambition." A top priority, he told TIME, will be to improve relations with the U.S. But given Canada's present sense of itself, that does not mean that the Bush Administration will get everything it wants...
...rights group says KFC's suppliers drug and scald the chickens, and sear off their beaks with hot blades before slaughtering them in an inhumane manner. "If people knew how KFC treats chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick," Anderson wrote in an Oct. 15 letter to operators of Canadian KFC outlets. (KFC says it deals only with suppliers that maintain high standards of animal welfare...