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Byron Eggenschwiler

Byron Eggenschwiler has done artwork for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and GQ.
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Business

What Do You Do with a Billion Grams of Surplus Weed?

August 5, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Byron Eggenschwiler

Cannabis legalization was supposed to be a licence to print money. Three years on, nobody is turning a profit

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Justice / September 2019

The Whistleblower Who Got It Wrong

August 14, 2019January 25, 2021 - by Byron Eggenschwiler

Six years ago, seven health care researchers were fired by the BC government for alleged misuse of data. They’re still trying to understand what happened.

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November 2016 / Society

L’Affaire Galloway

September 14, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Byron Eggenschwiler

Whatever the star UBC prof may have done, the university made things worse

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Illustration by Byron Eggenschwiler
June 2016

No One Is Watching You

June 18, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Byron Eggenschwiler

Silicon Valley learns that playing Big Brother is bad for business

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Illustration by Byron Eggenschwiler
May 2015

Minding the Monster

May 10, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Byron Eggenschwiler

A pedophile gets out of prison. What happens next?

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Illustration by Byron Eggenschwiler
September 2013

The Fix

September 19, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Byron Eggenschwiler

A new way of thinking about the intractable problem of injection drug use

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April 2013 / Memoir

The Meaning of White

March 20, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Byron Eggenschwiler

Science can explain why my daughter has a genetic disorder called albinism, but it is in stories that I find comfort

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