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March 2012

Stephen Marche writes a citizen’s guide to the War of 1812; Richard Poplak argues why soccer should be our national sport; Sasha Chapman asks whether a Canadian super-foodie can save American cuisine; Jen Gerson profiles Danielle Smith, Alberta’s bluest Tory; Maryam Sanati questions Gen Y’s use and abuse of Internet self-promotion…

Photograph by Landon Nordeman
Arts & Culture / March 2012

A Matter of Taste

March 12, 2012March 23, 2021 - by Sasha Chapman

Mitchell Davis, vice-president of the James Beard Foundation, believes you can’t develop a national cuisine until you create a public conversation about food

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Mike Jahn
March 2012 / Poetry

Different Sides

March 12, 2012April 26, 2017 - by Leonard Cohen

We find ourselves on different sides Of a line that nobody drew Though it all may be one in the higher eye Down here where we live it is two …

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March 2012

The Peter Principle

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

This appeared in the March 2012 issue.

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March 2012 / Poetry

Bee in Aster

March 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by A.F. Moritz

I saw the crisped, curled, and sere beech leaf float from ninety feet above on a serene long voyage across the air and come to the fountain’s sheer falling wall …

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Illustration by Michael Byers
March 2012 / Society

Brand Me

March 12, 2012March 10, 2021 - by Maryam Sanati

Gen Y personal branders are clogging Internet browsers with self-portraits, product endorsements, and the minutiae of their days. A Gen-Xer asks if we have any right to hate them

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March 2012

Rock of Aging

March 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by John Semley

Notorious punk filmmaker Bruce McDonald grows up—and old—in his candid mockumentary sequel, Hard Core Logo II

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March 2012 / Poetry

Baffled in Ashdod, Blind in Gaza

March 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Steven Heighton

E.A.: former Israeli Defence Forces soldier who, in August 2010, posted photos of herself smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. She labelled her Facebook album “The army… best time …

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Photograph by Johann Wall
Education / March 2012

Human Interest

March 12, 2012August 8, 2020 - by Sigal Samuel

A liberal arts education for Downtown Eastside residents

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March 2012

Seeing Red

March 12, 2012March 28, 2022 - by Richard Poplak

No other sport reveals a country’s soul as well as soccer does (yeah, we said it, Don Cherry). So what does our neglect of the beautiful game say about us? A patriot explains why it should be Canada’s national sport

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Photograph by François Pesant
March 2012

Life in the Bike Lane

March 12, 2012May 28, 2021 - by Taras Grescoe

The mayor of Montreal’s Plateau borough races to keep commuters’ cars out of his borough

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