#Donald Trump’s other wall – Macleans.ca

#Donald Trump’s other wall – Macleans.ca

“#Donald Trump’s other wall – Macleans.ca” Image of the Week: On the eve of a pivotal election, signs of the dissent and division consuming America are right outside White House The White House has had a fence for most of its existence. Thomas Jefferson’s administration first erected a wood-rail barrier; a stone wall replaced that…

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#In a new book series, Canadian critics grapple with COVID-19 and racism

#In a new book series, Canadian critics grapple with COVID-19 and racism

“#In a new book series, Canadian critics grapple with COVID-19 and racism” Inspired by 18th-century political pamphlets such as Voltaire’s Treatise on Tolerance, an attack on religious fanaticism that became a French bestseller after the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre, publisher Dan Wells is launching an ongoing series of book-length essays on contemporary issues, called Field…

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#How a Quebec rock-collector amassed a multi-million-dollar ‘national treasure’

#How a Quebec rock-collector amassed a multi-million-dollar ‘national treasure’

“#How a Quebec rock-collector amassed a multi-million-dollar ‘national treasure’” Samples from Haineault’s collection, including (clockwise from top left) analcime on microcline; an ice-cream scoop of leifite with serandite; catapleiite and natrolite; the slug-green-coloured sphalerite and albite; watermelon look-alike serandite and catapleiite; and the blue beauty fluorcarletonite (Courtesy of Gilles Haineault/Canadian Museum of Nature) It was…

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