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Month: December 2014

Photograph of Fidel Castro by Marcelo Montecito
Politics

Class with Castro

December 29, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Harley Rustad

When Fidel almost came to Dalhousie

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Photograph courtesy of Broadbent Institute
Society

The Year of Complicity

December 23, 2014October 20, 2021 - by Carly Lewis

On Jian Ghomeshi, Bill Cosby, and their enablers

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Illustration by Pascal Colpron
January/February 2015 / Poetry

Rebecca

December 23, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Jeramy Dodds

My dolphin eats glitter for breakfast. The jeweller’s hammer of her sonar chirps chunks off the cubic zirconia of my hard-on for her. My dolphin wolfs glitter off A-list stars …

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Artwork by Tine Modeweg-Hansen
January/February 2015 / Poetry

Seed

December 23, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Robyn Sarah

And the seed bunches hung in the summer trees on branches that swung in the wind, it was the summer when everywhere you went you heard the cries of newborn …

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Fiction / January/February 2015

Beyond the Shore

December 22, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Mona Awad

Living in the South Tower of Phase One, my bedroom window overlooks the Malibu Club Spa and Fitness Centre, which means the first thing I see when I wake up …

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A drawing of Rob Ford smiling
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Your Favourite Things

December 21, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Matthew McKinnon

Our most popular magazine articles, videos, podcasts, and blog posts published in 2014

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Photograph by Joshua Scott
December 2014

Armed and Dangerous

December 20, 2014June 6, 2020 - by John Lorinc

How mission creep is turning our cops into warriors

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Photograph by Kyle Carsten Wyatt
Memoir

Iqaluit Pastoral

December 19, 2014January 11, 2024 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

Dogsledding north of the tree line

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Photograph by Joakim Formo
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Uber’s Left Turn

December 19, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

By offering to take hundreds of thousands of cars off our roads through its upcoming carpool service, Uber is set to become the unlikely darling of Canadian progressives

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Illustration by James Walton
January/February 2015 / Technology

Unmasked

December 19, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Simon Lewsen

An anthropologist hacks her way into Anonymous

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