March 26, 2012

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MACLEAN'S BACK PAGES

Hair-raising, hilarious grandmotherhood

Plus, Mandela’s trial, Queen Victoria’s obsession, a memoir by a Pulitzer Prize-winner, why General Grant expelled the Jews, and a plea for space exploration By MARNI JACKSON, MICHAEL PETROU, PATRICIA TREBLE, Brian Bethune, KATE LUNAU9 min

Letters

Good grief, in a modern, healthy relationship, all money goes into the same pot, pays the same bills and builds the same nest egg (“The richer sex,” Society, March 12). To feel resentful, embarrassed, or otherwise put out by which side of the relationship that money came from is childish, petty and a holdover of a not-to-be-missed time when we were defined only by our income, when status was determined by a man’s income.

Interview

On becoming the Wal-Mart of security, and what exactly Garda is doing in the Middle East

STEPHAN CRÉTIER stumbled into the security industry in 1994. Five years later, with a $25,000 second mortgage on his home, he bought and radically revamped the Montrealbased security firm Garda, best known for its armoured trucks and pistol-packing guards. By MARTIN PATRIQUIN7 min

International

The breakaway?

Alex Salmond is scrambling to maintain his party’s credibility in the lead-up to a referendum on independence. A third of Scots back it. The majority want devolution. By LEAH MCLAREN6 min

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