Benoit AquinDominic Larocque, twenty-six, was wounded in Afghanistan. He made the Canadian sledge hockey team just nine months after he took up the sport.
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#22: Sledgehammer
“You use everything you have in these sports.” Disability scholar and former Paralympian Danielle Peers joins senior editor Drew Nelles to discuss the latter’s story about sledge hockey, Oscar Pistorius, and how society views athletes with disabilities
By Chris Berube
From the March 2014 magazine
Benoit AquinDominic Larocque, twenty-six, was wounded in Afghanistan. He made the Canadian sledge hockey team just nine months after he took up the sport.Interview
#21: Inside the Story behind the Rob Ford Story
“If the choice is between giving readers pause and not telling the story at all, I think you’ve got to tell the story.” Ivor Tossell on the legal challenges of reporting Toronto’s ultimate political scandal
By Chris Berube
From the March 2014 magazine
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#20: Electric Powwow
“It always starts with that basic, straight-forward drum beat, which...is supposed to symbolize the heartbeat of Mother Earth.” Waubgeshig Rice discusses his profile of Aboriginal DJs A Tribe Called Red
By Chris Berube
From the December 2013 magazine
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#19: Boy Next Door
“You want to be able to relay...how horrible it actually was, while still maintaining your respect for the people who endured it.” Stacey May Fowles discusses her challenging memoir about growing up in the shadow of Paul Bernardo
By Chris Berube
From the December 2013 magazine
Interview
#18: Eleanor Catton
An interview with the winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Co-produced by the Canada Council for the Arts
By Chris Berube
From the December 2013 magazine
Interview
#17: Forgotten Woman
Marian Botsford Fraser discusses the crimes and punishment of dangerous offender Renée Acoby
By Chris Berube
From the November 2013 magazine
Interview
#16: Big Mac
On oil sands, SUVs, and sustainability: Taras Grescoe recounts his visit to Alberta boom town Fort McMurray
By Chris Berube
From the November 2013 magazine
Interview
#15: Return to Afghanistan
Five years ago, reporter Mellissa Fung was kidnapped, stabbed, and held outside of Kabul. Now, she explains why she had to go back
By Chris Berube
From the October 2013 magazine
Lana ŠlezićA woman rests at Chaman Babrak, a settlement for internally displaced persons in northern Kabul. From the photographer’s Forsaken series.Interview
#14: Judging the GGLAs
Produced in partnership with the Canada Council for the Arts: jurors Mahtab Narsimhan and Thomas Wharton talk about judging one of the country’s premier literary awards
By Chris Berube
From the October 2013 magazine
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#13: Water
Artist Edward Burtynsky discusses his stunning visual essay for the magazine’s anniversary issue
By Chris Berube
From the October 2013 magazine
Interview
#12: That Bieber Fever
Music writer Kaitlin Fontana charts the rise and fall of pop superstar Justin Bieber
By Chris Berube
From the October 2013 magazine
Interview
#11: The Fix
Writer and epidemiologist Dan Werb discusses the problems with injection drug use—and new possibilities to improve them
By Chris Berube
From the September 2013 magazine
Interview
#10: Body and Soul
Author Drew Nelles, joined by his friend Dan Harvey, discusses his memoir about the accident that broke Dan’s neck
By Chris Berube
From the September 2013 magazine
Interview
#9: Summer Reading
Current fiction editor Nick Mount and former fiction editor Jared Bland come together to discuss the magazine’s love of literary escape
By Chris Berube
From the July/August 2013 magazine
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