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May 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…

Cities / May 2012

Of Culture and Condos

May 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

Shortly before he died, the literary critic Northrop Frye foresaw an insidious cultural phenomenon: Canada’s “condominium mentality”

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Photograph by Jörg Baumann/Kidd Pivot
Arts & Culture / May 2012

Stories With Legs

May 12, 2012October 25, 2019 - by Kaija Pepper

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 “Modern dance” is an outdated term.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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Photograph by Lorraine Gilbert
First Person / May 2012

On Growing Up White Trash

May 12, 2012June 15, 2020 - by Heather O'Neill

A writer comes to terms with the culture of her birth

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May 2012 / Poetry

Lunar Innuendos

May 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Eric Ormsby

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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Comics / May 2012

Aye, Robot

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

This appeared in the May 2012 issue.

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Cities / May 2012

Road Rage

May 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by John Lorinc

In Taras Grescoe’s Straphanger, pitched battles over transit are about where and how we want to live

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May 2012 / Poetry

You Ask Your Father What a Lease Is

May 12, 2012April 26, 2017 - by Mathew Henderson

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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Photograph by Scotty Sherin
Environment / May 2012

Hurricane Surfing

May 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Lyndsie Bourgon

Nova Scotia’s free surfers search for dangerous waves—and keep them secret

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Illustration by Janice Wu
May 2012 / Memoir

The Last Post?

May 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Bill Walker*

As Canada Post wrestles with its bottom line, a letter carrier addresses the nation

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Feature / May 2012

Elizabeth May Fights by Her Own Rules

May 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Susan Harada

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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