Maclean's

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JUSTICE

A tolerant nation's hiddenshame

A federal study suggests that thousands may be victims of hate crime By RAE CORELLI12 min

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FILMS

Dances with databases

Cyberspace is the last frontier as Hollywood hypes new thrillers By Brian D. Johnson5 min

Those dancing cats on Quebec’s hot tin roof

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THE NATION’S BUSINESS

Those dancing cats on Quebec’s hot tin roof

The independence movement is pure theatre in which the actors perform for each other. The audience has meanwhile grabbed a life. By Peter C. Newman5 min

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SPORTS

In the driver's seat

Jacques Villeneuve is racing’s hottest commodity By JAMES DEACON10 min

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Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau insisted that there is no rift in the province’s sovereignty alliance—despite a call from one of his key allies to scrap the Parti Québécois’s draft bill on sovereignty. Mario Dumont, leader of the tiny Parti Action Democratique, said earlier that he wants the bill to set out the process for negotiating economic and political links with the rest of Canada if Quebecers vote yes in the referendum expected this fall.

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WORLD

Questions of guilt and shame

Prisoners of the Second World War still cannot forgive the Japanese

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WORLD

FANNING THE FLAMES

A Croatian offensive regains territory lost to Serbs in 1991 By BRUCE WALLACE7 min

50

THE ARTS

Manhattan, N.S.

Cape Breton Island is a sanctuary for New York artists By JOHN DeMONT in Inverness County4 min

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CANADA

The price of fame

Broadcaster Brian Smith’s murder shocks Ottawa By WARREN CARAGATA in Ottawa4 min

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COVER

DEAL MAKERS

Entertainment and technology mergers are paving the information highway By ANDREW WILLIS6 min

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OPENING NOTES

When colleagues back at Harvard University ask former prime minister Kim Campbell what she did on her summer vacation, she will have a ready answer. For a summer job, the 48-year-old ex-politician is practising her snappy comebacks as a fillin host for five weeks on two popular Vancouver radio phone-in shows. By BARBARA WICKENS6 min

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COLUMN

Saskatchewan in the familial way

So, you see, there is Edna, who ran the church choir in the Carman United Church in Sardis, B.C., for 40 years. There are Ruby and Lloyd, who belong to three different skating clubs around Stayner, Ont., and skate three nights a week. They go up to Ottawa and skate the Rideau Canal. By Allan Fotheringham4 min