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September 2012

Sasha Chapman describes how KD became Canada’s national dish; Edward L. Greenspan and Anthony N. Doob examine how federal Conservatives are transforming the values of the judicial system through harsher sentencing; Richard Poplak profiles tennis superstar Milos Raonic; Emily Landau celebrates twenty-five years of Degrassi…

Feature / September 2012

Kraft Dinner is Canada’s True National Dish

September 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Sasha Chapman

In a single year, the company manufactured 120 million boxes of powdered cheese and noodles

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Illustration by Joe Morse
September 2012 / Sports

The Ace Age

September 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Richard Poplak

Tennis pro Milos Raonic has poise, drive, and a killer serve. Is that enough to make him a superstar?

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Captured Canadian troops are marched through the streets of Dieppe, following Operation Jubilee
Feature / September 2012

Deconstructing Dieppe

September 12, 2012October 1, 2018 - by Nathan M. Greenfield

Seventy years ago, Canada suffered 3,367 casualties in a battle whose name remains a metaphor for military disaster

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Illustration by Dushan Milic
Feature / September 2012

The Harper Doctrine: Once a Criminal, Always a Criminal

September 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Edward L. Greenspan

Liberal and Conservatives have agreed that our criminal justice system should rehabilitate offenders—until now

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Illustration by Shannon Jager
September 2012 / Television

Teenage Dreams

September 12, 2012October 23, 2019 - by Emily Landau

After twenty-five years, Degrassi remains popular culture’s most honest depiction of teen life

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Health / September 2012

Pop and the Tax Question

September 12, 2012October 1, 2018 - by Mike Moffatt

An economist’s modest proposal to address the obesity epidemic

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Cheerleading Pyramid
September 2012 / Visual Art

Southern Exposure

September 12, 2012September 10, 2020 - by Jolyon Helterman

MASS MoCA has launched the largest exhibition of Canadian art ever mounted outside Canada

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Photograph by Curtis Way
Politics / September 2012

A New Politics?

September 12, 2012April 15, 2020 - by Max Fawcett

Alberta strategist Stephen Carter takes the high road to victory

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Poetry / September 2012

Trust Fund

September 12, 2012July 21, 2017 - by Matthew Tierney

Brother and sister watch the estate lawyer take a cork-backed ruler to the ground plan: two wings behind a cast iron gate, a barn raised for the Shetlands. Into the …

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Illustration by Miki Sato
September 2012 / Television

Jungle Guardian

September 12, 2012October 23, 2019 - by Andrew Westoll

A superhero assumes the fate of the Congo

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