February 9, 2015

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Economy

A-Z OF OIL

As the price of oil tanks, fissures deepen and spread throughout the Canadian economy. The impact is so widespread you’d need an encyclopedia to figure it all out. Well, we have one right here. By JASON KIRBY71 min

MACLEAN'S BACK PAGES

The doomed, century-old war on drugs

Plus China’s secret plan for America, mind-bending fiction set in a topsy-turvy Montreal, a memoir-cum-mystery in Nazi France, and Scott McCloud’s comic opus

This Week

LETTERS

I enjoyed Scott Gilmore’s “Leaving the Muslim world behind” (International, Jan. 26). However, I’m not convinced that Islam, the Muslim world and Muslim nations/states are synonymous terms: The first is a doctrine, the second is a highly abstract classification, and the third includes varying geopolitical and socio-economic elements that cannot be generalized.

NATIONAL

Taking a stand

The mayor’s dramatic call to arms to fight racism has sparked an unprecedented conversation in Winnipeg—and an outpouring of support from across the country By NANCY MACDONALD7 min