Matthieu Aikins asks if the military’s massive counterinsurgency gamble can salvage the Afghan war; John Gray audits Canada’s Auditor General, Sheila Fraser; Jeet Heer explores Stuart McLean’s kind-hearted universe; Dave Cameron writes a heart-breaking memoir about his father’s death; Pasha Malla raises the lingering question from the summer’s G20 summit in Toronto: what if the black bloc protesters had a point?; fiction by Deborah Willis...