Hurricane Surfing
Nova Scotia’s free surfers search for dangerous waves—and keep them secret
Read MoreMay 2012
Susan Harada profiles Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party; Mark Czarnecki ponders the ethical and medical implications of the Human Genome Project; Lyndsie Bourgon visits the hurricane surfers of Nova Scotia; Heather O’Neill ruminates on growing up white trash; a disgruntled mail carrier addresses the nation…
On Growing Up White Trash
A writer comes to terms with the culture of her birth
Read MoreOf Culture and Condos
Shortly before he died, the literary critic Northrop Frye foresaw an insidious cultural phenomenon: Canada’s “condominium mentality”
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Stories With Legs
Danced in socks and bare feet, Crystal Pite’s edgy choreography has been dubbed the future of ballet. “Modern dance” is an outdated term. Maybe “ballet” is, too
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Aye, Robot
This appeared in the May 2012 issue.
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Lunar Innuendos
That bluish cataract milky with age, the moon’s grey glimpse gauzed by night Scuffed and ochreous as a child’s lost ball discovered under last December’s ice, With necrotic shadows wisping …
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You Ask Your Father What a Lease Is
And he tells you about the geese beyond the aqueduct, how they turn the sky grey, how as a teen he never put his gun away dirty. You remember the …
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A Park Apart
Sable Island will soon become our forty-third national park, and the challenge for Parks Canada is how to reconcile the competing interests of wilderness protection and ecotourism. Can a national park really manage both?
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Elizabeth May Fights by Her Own Rules
The Green Party’s Elizabeth May went to Ottawa to champion environmental issues. Now the country’s hardest-working politician is out to rescue the democratic process
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