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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…

Illustration by Kelsey Heinrichs
Fiction / June 2012

Atlas

June 12, 2012March 10, 2022 - by Mike Barnes

The Day the Fat Man Almost Fell, The Day We Almost Lost Him, Danny is sitting on his stool beside the circular cubicle in which Mrs. Kincone washes the OR …

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June 2012 / Society

Yee-f***ing-haw

June 12, 2012May 1, 2017 - by The Walrus

The University of Calgary’s Gauntlet newspaper on the Calgary Stampede, circa 1993

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June 2012 / Politics

Visit to Canada by Their Royal Highnesses

June 12, 2012July 16, 2019 - by The Walrus

Memorandum for Correspondents, Radio Broadcasters, Motion and Still Photographers

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June 2012 / Society

Mission Possible

June 12, 2012May 1, 2017 - by Justin Langille

A bohemian church plant takes root in downtown Vancouver

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June 2012 / Poetry

Hoffos at MOCCA, Hester at ACCA

June 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Ken Babstock

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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June 2012

Penny Ante

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

This appeared in the June 2012 issue.

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June 2012 / Society

Risky Saigon

June 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by David Sax

Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam and his sensual, sin-filled Vietnam War epic, The Headmaster’s Wager

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June 2012

The Pragmatic Prophet

June 12, 2012May 1, 2017 - by Brett Grainger

A new retrospective mines the sweet sadness and apocalyptic visions of William Kurelek

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June 2012 / Poetry

Return to Metcalfe Street

June 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Nyla Matuk

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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Image (I-61404) courtesy of the Royal BC Museum/BC Archives
Environment / June 2012

Is Cadborosaurus for Real?

June 12, 2012July 17, 2019 - by Anne Shibata Casselman

The British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club thinks so

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