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Monte Paulsen details Canada’s failure to develop high-speed rail; Chris Turner considers geologist David Hughes’s argument that we are about to run out of fossil fuels; a photo essay by Balazs Gardi depicts life in wartime Afghanistan; Rick Salutin explores the Haida giving tradition of the potlatch; fiction by Lisa Moore...