April 17, 2000

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Canada and the World

GUN SMARTS

Canadian companies have the technology that can help curb weapon-related violence, and the United States wants it. The innovations may also help the White House bypass the thorny American debate over gun control. By Andrew Phillips9 min

Life

A Food Fight Heats Up

Every weekday, Mitchell Borden arrives at John Martin Junior High School in Dartmouth, N.S., by 8:15 a.m. He’s not there to study or to take part in an extracurricular activity. Mitchell goes for a free breakfast, available through a program the school set up in 1997. By Susan McClelland7 min

Overture

Canadian art lovers have had ample opportunity lately to view the work of Doris McCarthy, the 89-year-old Toronto-based landscape artist has had solo shows in Budapest, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto and Kleinburg, Ont., over the past months—with more coming.