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How did Gandhi do it? PAGE 25 Visit reviewcanada.ca for web-exclusive essays and reviews $6.50 Vol. 21, No. 8 October 2013 Sandra Martin Supporting the boomers As society ages, we need to look squarely at the coming social impact ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Terry Glavin David Crane Peter Russell The dogs of Afghanistan Stagnate or innovate? The Getting aboriginal rights right quest for new Canadian jobs PLUS: NON-FICTION Bronwyn Best on Canada and Japan + Reg Whitaker on the “notorious” Cuban Five + Jim Roots on the architecture of deafness + Walter deKeseredy on misreading male aggression + Stephen Henighan on the story of Spanish + Andrew Woolford on the clearing of Publications Mail Agreement #40032362 the midwestern plains Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to LRC, Circulation Dept. FICTION Marian Botsford Fraser reviews The Orenda by Joseph Boyden + Jack Kirchhoff reviews PO Box 8, Station K Toronto, ON M4P 2G1 Emancipation Day by Wayne Grady POETRY Kyeren Regehr + Guy Ewing + W.M. 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I was hurtling through city the dramatic increase in the birthrate in the two to let their chronological age determine their streets dodging vehicles and pedestrians, compos- decades between 1946 and 1965.