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Mark Leiren-Young

Mark Leiren-Young won the Leacock Medal for Humour with Never Shoot a Stampede Queen: A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo. He co-wrote This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge.
Photograph by Len2040
Environment

Should We Eat Whales?

August 2, 2016July 17, 2019 - by Mark Leiren-Young

North Americans have loved them since their first aquarium visit, but Norwegians are still hunting and eating

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Photograph of Mark Leiran-Young
Society

Oui ou Non

October 27, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Mark Leiren-Young

Twenty years ago, the Unity Rally in Montreal kept Canada together

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Photograph courtesy of Mark Leiren-Young
First Person

Cats and Dogs in Cannes

October 7, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Mark Leiren-Young

A letter from the flooded streets of the French Riviera

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Illustration by Michael Byers
Feature / October 2014

When Killer Whales Got a Rebrand

October 6, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Mark Leiren-Young

Fifty years ago, killer whales became known as orcas—and launched the modern conservation movement

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Photograph by Grant Harder
December 2012 / Feature

His One Demand

December 26, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Mark Leiren-Young

Kalle Lasn, the revolutionary publisher of Adbusters, is the brains behind the Occupy movement. Next up: a takedown of classical economic theory

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January/February 2012 / Theatre

Beyond the Fringe

January 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Mark Leiren-Young

The Edmonton festival has launched a thousand careers—and has arguably corrupted a generation of performers

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