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HOLIDAY TRAILS OF CANADA

Fred Bodsworth on THE BRUCE

This fabulous footpath lures hikers along five hundred miles of (almost) unspoiled wilderness from Niagara to Ontario’s rocky land’s end, Tobermory. Southbound, dedicated pedestrians can keep right on into Georgia’s magnolias

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Life on Mars? On July 14 we could know

Mariner IV is morethan just another spacecraft. As it nears journey’s end, sensitive instruments and a TV camera stand ready to scan the enigmatic Red Planet What they find could unlock the deepest mystery of the universe: the origin of life itself By N. J. BERRILL16 min

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The people who don’t want equality

Alberta's Hutterites are the most law-abiding people on earth. But their resistance to efforts to modernize them by legislation is sparking the province's most bitter dispute By W. O. MITCHELL15 min

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THE HIGH PRIEST OF POP CULTURE

For years Canadian Professor Marshall McLuhan has been preaching his theories of mass communications — but hardly anybody understood him. Now, suddenly, he’s becoming the hottest intellectual fad since Zen Buddhism By ALEXANDER ROSS13 min

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WIFE KILLER— OR FALL GUY?

Wayne Lonergan served 21 years of a life sentence for murder. Then fate offered a chance at freedom — and some of his dead wife’s millions By GWYN THOMAS, JACK BATTEN12 min

The four fearsome holes of golf’s toughest test

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“NOBODY TAKES MISSISSAUGUA APART”

The four fearsome holes of golf’s toughest test

Treacherous greens and unfair fairways will spike many of the big guns among 150 of the world’s top golfers competing in the $100,000 Canadian Open. George Knudson, Canada’s front-running ace predicts where—and why—they’ll come to grief By JACK BATTEN12 min

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MAILBAG

How we can win in world hockey / Something did happen in 1867 / B. C. smug? It’s got good cause

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YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT CANADIANA

Mrs. C.R.S., Montreal Sorry, but your letter does not contain sufficient data. Ceramics have been produced for thousands of years and every country, Canada included, has copied basic designs and forms. Other than actually examining an object, identification must be based on complete descriptions of all marks, techniques, textures, etc. By GERALD STEVENS5 min