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January/February 2012

Daniel Baird ponders our appetite for retribution; Charlotte Gray profiles David Johnston, Canada’s twenty-eighth Governor General; Don Gillmor reconstructs the invention of Waterloo as a high-tech powerhouse; Sara Angel studies Jack Chambers’ unfinished masterpiece; fiction by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer…

January/February 2012 / Media

Editor’s Note

January 17, 2012April 13, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

My guide in matters pertaining to journalism is A.J. Liebling who, from 1946 to 1963, wrote a column in The New Yorker called The Wayward Press. (He also wrote Between …

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January/February 2012 / Poetry

There’s Where the American Helicopters Landed

January 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by David O'Meara

Sixtyish now, Ling Quang’s hard look lifts from the gravel where we’ve stopped, the Honda’s kickstand staked to the mountain road’s bit of shoulder, our helmets left like laid eggs …

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January/February 2012 / Poetry

The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness

January 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Damian Rogers

When he was thirty-eight years old, he found himself in a stranger’s basement confronted by a calendar that had stopped dead on the day he was born. He became the …

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Comics / January/February 2012

Gushing

January 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Jason Sherman

This appeared in the January/February 2012 issue.

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Photograph by Craig Chandler, University Communications/UNL
January/February 2012 / Sports

Pipeline Offence

January 12, 2012June 15, 2020 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

How TransCanada Corporation changed the game for football fans in Nebraska

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Painting by Jack Chambers
January/February 2012 / Visual Art

Unfinished Business

January 12, 2012September 16, 2019 - by Sara Angel

Jack Chambers died of leukemia in 1978, leaving behind an incomplete painting he had worked on for over a decade. The mystery of his masterpiece, Lunch

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January/February 2012 / World

His Share

January 12, 2012May 1, 2017 - by Jeremy Relph

A Libyan Canadian leaves behind university life to join the revolution

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Illustration by Patrick Kyle
Books / January/February 2012

Lost Boy

January 12, 2012August 8, 2020 - by Emily Landau

With his parody of children’s books, Highly Inapproriate Tales for Young People, Douglas Coupland joins his Gen X peers, revelling in nostalgia. Isn’t it time to grow up?

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Photograph by Nigel Dickson
Feature / January/February 2012

Reign Maker

January 12, 2012January 22, 2021 - by Charlotte Gray

David Johnston, Canada’s twenty-eighth Governor General, possesses impeccable credentials and old-fashioned charm. Plus he is the government’s secret weapon in restoring the power of the monarchy

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Fiction / January/February 2012

Corpse

January 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Contorted into downward dog, legs slightly bent, soles on the floor, Maura said, “You have to imagine it’s like a yoni—a great universal twat.” And then she added, “You know? ” …

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