June 2012
Chris Turner reconsiders Calgary; John Lorinc visits the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab; Roger LeMoyne and Sean Michaels show how Montreal became the circus capital of the world; Anne Casselman ponders whether the Cadborosaurus is real; fiction by Mike Barnes; poetry by Ken Babstock and Nyla Matuk…
Yee-f***ing-haw
The University of Calgary’s Gauntlet newspaper on the Calgary Stampede, circa 1993
Read MoreMission Possible
A bohemian church plant takes root in downtown Vancouver
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Hoffos at MOCCA, Hester at ACCA
Subfusc, innerwhelmed, surfing some weightless valence of privilege and white glare on the esplanade at St Kilda. Sun batters a quincunx of big, deliquescent palms. The harbour’s all Piaget Chronograph. …
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This appeared in the June 2012 issue.
Read MoreRisky Saigon
Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam and his sensual, sin-filled Vietnam War epic, The Headmaster’s Wager
Read MoreThe Pragmatic Prophet
A new retrospective mines the sweet sadness and apocalyptic visions of William Kurelek
Read More Return to Metcalfe Street
Lonely in their languor, and twenty years no longer lovely Or lingering in storefront neon mingling with dusk, Widows gossiping with friends on porches, Then sleeping away August evenings On …
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