The answer: a TV show machine-made to earn a profit by the factory that turns out the lion’s share of the canned entertainment on our screens. This is a profile of the factory and the shrewd men who run it in the United States and CanadaBy RICHARD GEHMAN28 min
ON A BITTERLY COLD night just a few weeks ago, I gave a man in a hotel in Timmins, Ont., twenty dollars for a small package of gold. This was illegal, of course, but it was also surprisingly easy. At the time, the heat was supposed to he on the Timmins' high-graders, the men who steal, refine and sell gold from the local mines.By DAVID LEWIS STEIN14 min
Bunnies are either the sexiest waitresses or the hardest-working objets d’art anywhere. But they're also lively young women, and here’s what they're like on their own time
The world is going into the hottest year for fallout since testing began. Canada is the hottest country in the world. Here are the simple steps we should already have taken to protect ourselvesBy BARBARA MOON9 min
MONTREAL already has the best public sculpture in Canada, the Henry Moore in Dominion Square. Soon it may also have the biggest public sculpture, not only in Canada but in the world, bar none. There is even some loose talk about the possibility that the Max Bill sculpture now being planned for Place Ville Marie will be the biggest erected anywhere on earth since the Colossus of Rhodes, the ancient record-holder.By ROBERT FULFORD6 min
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