Once mobbed and jailed, the Witnesses now are tolerated even in Quebec. They no longer need the glamour of martyrdom to win converts to a sect that takes the Bible literally and believes only Witnesses will survive ArmageddonBy HAL TENNANT16 min
THIS IS THE MIDWAY of the Canadian National Exhibition as only the people who work there can know it, or any other carnival midway. To them, it is fifteen days of heat, noise, dirt, bad food, weariness and an inexhaustible variety of human faces.By DAVID LEWIS STEIN15 min
A lawyer from New England and a writer from Winnipeg were the first tourists ever to join the Hudson Bay Eskimos in their spring drive for fresh seal meat. Here's what it was like and why any white hunter with $800 will be able to do it next yearBy RALPH HEDLIN12 min
Last month, in a Maclean's article, Paul Simon cast doubt on the wisdom of the government’s proposed use of nuclear warheads on Bomarc missiles. Simon argued that this might, in a war, increase nuclear devastation in Canada. Douglas S. Harkness, the minister of defense, has replied to Simon’s article.By PAUL SIMON6 min
There are twelve camps for 4,500 crippled children in Canada. Ricky Logan went to one this summer and, for two weeks, he went swimming, played baseball, camped out, forgot his brace — and came up for more
AT A COCKTAIL PARTY in London the other day two Canadians were talking politics when an English friend joined them. “I’ve been overhearing you,” he said, “but I can’t tell whether you’re talking about your own government or ours.” This may be the first time since Confederation, and it's certainly the first time since the 1920s, that such a remark could make sense, but it’s true the resemblances are striking enough to provide an amusing parlor game for political gossips.By BLAIR FRASER5 min
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