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May 2010

Chris Turner takes twenty-first-century Europe’s new grand tour; Robert Cushman reflects on the iconic Christopher Plummer; Kaitlin Fontana remembers her time in New York; Matthew McKinnon charts the rise of Canadian rapper Drake; fiction by Pasha Malla…

Comics / May 2010

A New Solution to an Old Problem

May 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Jason Sherman

This appeared in the May 2010 issue.

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Health / May 2010

Confidence Game

May 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Kim Pittaway

Is Asperger’s syndrome being used as a false front?

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Books / May 2010

The Walrus Reads

May 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by Jared Bland

Seven new spring books

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Illustration by Rachelle Maynard
Fiction / May 2010

1999

May 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Pasha Malla

When I woke up this mornin’ Coulda sworn it was Judgment Day Iwouldn’t fuck Prince if he was the last man on Earth,” Sonya told her friends, drunk and searing …

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Photograph by Matt Barnes
May 2010 / Music

Almost Famous

May 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Matthew McKinnon

At just twenty-three, Canadian rapper Drake is already leagues ahead of those who’ve come before

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May 2010 / Politics

The Princess of Pot

May 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Monte Paulsen

With her husband Marc in jail, Jodie Emery, a Green Party candidate in the next federal election, will inherit his cannabis empire

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Photograph courtesy of Diamond+Schmitt Architects/Cicada Design
Arts & Culture / May 2010

Red Tape

May 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

For Diamond+Schmitt, winning an international competition to design a cultural centre in St. Petersburg was a blessing and a curse

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Environment / May 2010

Invasion of the Killer Bugs

May 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Lisa Gregoire

A team of entomologists defends Canada from foreign insect species

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May 2010 / Politics

No-Account

May 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Christopher Flavelle

Harper may be fond of kicking watchdogs, but he isn’t the first Canadian leader to skirt accountability

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May 2010 / Society

The Second One-Legged Runner

May 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Sherri Barron

Looking back on Steve Fonyo, Terry Fox’s troubled successor

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