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Month: December 2015

Politics

Sunny Ways v. the Dark Side

December 29, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Michael Den Tandt

Is Justin Trudeau Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader—or, Lord help us, the insufferable parvenu Kylo Ren?

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Uncategorized

It Takes a Village

December 23, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Richard Kelly Kemick

Our holiday expert critiques readers’ Christmas creations

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Santa posing in front of school bus
Society

Santa, Take the Wheel

December 23, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Eva Holland

Where treetops glisten, and children listen, to hear the garbage truck in the snow

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Group playing cars around a table
January/February 2016 / Memoir

House of Cards

December 22, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Shelley Youngblut

Looking for a father in the one place I swore I’d never go

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red cat looking at its own shadow
Health / January/February 2016

The Last House before the Bridge

December 22, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

What addicts need most

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FIngers squeezing person in hospital bed
Arts & Culture / January/February 2016

The League of Extraordinary Assholes

December 21, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Mark Kingwell

There’s a jerk in every room. Is it you?

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Images courtesy of Science Museum/Wellcome Images, with the exception of No. 2 (National Library of Medicine)
December 2015

Doctors without Science

December 19, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Philip E. Tetlock

A brief history of quackery, from leeches to ostrich eggs

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Photograph by mike138
Uncategorized

The Fair and Foul of Adaptation

December 18, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Amanda Cockburn

Violence and PTSD take centre stage in Justin Kurzel’s ​Macbeth

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Illustration by Brandon Celi
March 2016

Why Do We Find Nonsense Words Funny?

December 18, 2015May 7, 2020 - by Michael Hingston

Certain nonsense words consistently made patients smile and sometimes even laugh out loud. Especially ‘Skunkoople’

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Illustration by Studio Tipi
January/February 2016 / Society

Luck of the Draw

December 18, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Philip Moscovitch

Lottery greed invades small-town Nova Scotia

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