Editor’s Note
Illustration by Jeff KulakIn 1867, when the British North America Act set out the terms of Confederation, most Canadians lived in small towns and villages or on farms. Cities as …
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Portraits of Women in Nunavut
A visual companion to Lisa Gregoire’s “Madam Premier”
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The Return of Gold Fever
One of Canada’s pre-eminent photojournalists explores one of man’s oldest obsessions in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon
Read MoreCareful What You Pray For
This appeared in the January/February 2011 issue.
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Civil and Civic
You talk across periods; I draw on arms with blue pen, The Clash, et cetera. With gall you hang posters, know the slogans. You savour the word disobedience, chew chocolate …
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Craving Corrie
Coronation Street—the quintessentially British soap opera that turns fifty this year—attracts 1.3 million Canadian viewers a night. Why?
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Memento Mirmy
The boneyard aesthetic of Vancouver’s Mirmy Winn
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Uncivilizing Influences
What makes a video game “addictive”?
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Meet You at the Door
I had been typing since I was thirteen. On my mother’s L.C. Smith, my friend Howie and I made up our own Typing Olympics
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The Morgentaler Effect
What the champion of reproductive rights has to teach the right-to-die movement
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