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NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS 1931-2001. By Czeslaw Milosz. 776 pp. New York: The Ecco Press/ HarperCollins Publishers. $45. TOWARD the end of this Hardy-sized collection, and after more than 70 years of writing, Czeslaw Milosz wants to make a clean breast of things. At the beginning of the last book included in the collection, a book that is in his own words ''a closing of accounts,'' he places his title poem, ''This.'' It is in the form of a direct address to the reader, though it is the poet...

Edmonton is about to make an important decision on how recreational cannabis will be sold in the city. Get it right and it will build on the good work already done to ensure that entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes can take part in the market. Get it wrong and it risks undercutting that market before it even begins and allowing speculators and possibly even criminal elements into the process. The decision involves a simple issue: the process for determining who will get a permit from the...