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October 2011

Chris Turner ponders the future of food; eight months after Egypt’s revolution, Paul Wilson reports from Tahrir Square in Cairo; Craille Maguire Gillies explores the possibility of in vitro meat; Jeet Heer recounts the tradition of cannibalism in Canadian literature; fiction by Peter Norman…

October 2011

Editor’s Note

October 19, 2011April 13, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

In September 1991, while working for CTV News, I found myself in Moscow shortly after the failed coup d’état that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It was …

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Illustration by Joseph Wu
Arts & Culture / October 2011

Revisionist Chinese

October 12, 2011January 31, 2022 - by Kevin Chong

What began in immigrant-owned diners and evolved into the more authentic fare of urban Chinatowns is now giving rise to something called modern Chinese. Updated ancestral dishes, however, are not to everyone’s taste

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Illustration by David Parkins
October 2011

New Year’s Revelations

October 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Jason Sherman

There’s no time to lose

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Illustration by Kate Beaton
Books / October 2011

Guess Who’s for Dinner

October 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Jeet Heer

The Cannibal Spirit joins a long tradition of flesh-eating literature set in Canada

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October 2011

Mountain Due

October 12, 2011November 30, 2021 - by Arno Kopecky

Ski porn meets climate change in a new movie by the Rocky Mountain Sherpas

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October 2011 / Poetry

Ossian’s Folly, Black Linn Falls

October 12, 2011July 20, 2017 - by Roo Borson

And thus we came to it, the falls’ vertiginous chain mail welded in spume and walking a cream-coloured column atop black basalt now black now red in the standing wave …

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October 2011 / Poetry

Then

October 12, 2011July 20, 2017 - by Elise Partridge

“Palm readings by the pair”— fortunes in the city! Stale patchouli whiffs; a spidery chandelier; gold at her turtle throat. Her pilling shawl was fringed with foggy opal tears. She …

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October 2011 / Society

The Idea of North

October 12, 2011May 1, 2017 - by David Marchese

At a college in upstate New York, a band of outsiders share an esoteric interest: Canada

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Photograph by Alana Riley
October 2011

Disturbing Content

October 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Alexandra Molotkow

Montreal FX artist Rémy Couture may face imprisonment for gory images he disseminated on his website. In horror terms, he’s made it

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Image Courtesy of the Tissue Culture and Art Project
October 2011 / Technology

Food for Thought

October 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Craille Maguire Gillies

Mirko Betti, university researcher and self-made philosopher, represents the vanguard of a brand new technology: in vitro meat

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