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12 Getting beyond that high-school French Harvey Schachter
14 Dribbling away those basketball blues_Jack Batten
22 Labor’s love lost: an inside look at the movement Ed Finn
24 Hard hat hell: in the heat of the foundry_Ian Porter
26 Caught in the net: working the salmon run Al Purdy
28 All about acupuncture John Gault & James Paupst, MD
30 On the road with the Atlantic Symphony Donald Cameron
32 Every April we buy a farm_R. Laird O’Brien
34 Ensuring our independent future_Jack McClelland
36 Sweden gives us sex, we give them violence Roy MacGregor
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40 A readers' rating of mayors in Canada_Walter Stewart
57 Last tango in Tahiti Tom Sloan
96 Selling rock in a bubblegum world Larry LcRIanc
98 Taking the law into your own hands Constance Mungall
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