A Resonant Boom
How Shanghai’s citizens view their city’s seemingly unending growth.
Read MoreNovember 2006
Nora Underwood delves into what neuroscience tells us about the teenage brain; Andrew Nikiforuk questions Alberta’s dependence on VLT gambling revenues; a photo essay by Sarah Hughes depicts women in their “comfortable and safe” outfits and their “attractive and sexy” outfits; fiction by Tobias Wolff…
Swedish for Great Literature
When catalogues become books
Read More“Chillax, Pops”
I‘m not sure exactly when Canada struck me anew as a decent place worth fighting for, but it happened sometime this past summer. The arrival of Thomas Noiset, our sixteen-yearold …
Read MoreThe Frozen Zoo
As species disappear, natural history’s future is put on ice
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Banking on Catastrophe
Beneath an Arctic island, the seeds of a
postapocalyptic garden lie buried
Scarce Heard Amid the Guns
Does Canada’s war museum say enough about peace?
Read MoreKeeping Everest Honest
Elizabeth Hawley, arbiter of Himalayan
glory and shame, calls it like she sees it
Still Soaring
Illustration by Kwag Hyo When asked about the murder, Larc first talks about his brother’s life rather than his death. As someone who also once lost a true friend and …
Read MoreArmed with a Dream
Illustration by Marco Cibola “Black male youth, armed and dangerous” is the familiar phrase we hear far too often on the news. We rarely hear about the black youth armed …
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Re-creating Family
It took seven years for us to be reunited with our father in Canada
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