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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…

Photograph by Guillaume Simoneau
September 2012

Le Québécois Libre

September 12, 2012June 24, 2020 - by Simon Lewsen

Film director Xavier Dolan embodies the dynamism of the Arcade Fire generation, but with a vision all his own

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September 2012

The Gloves Are On

September 12, 2012April 15, 2020 - by Jason Sherman

This appeared in the September 2012 issue.

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Poetry / September 2012

Hearsay

September 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Adam Dickinson

A polymer of longitudinal conspiracies The Apollo landings happened in someone’s basement. The director was Sheik Zubair, from Basra, who had earlier written works erroneously attributed to Bacon, Marlowe, and …

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Politics / September 2012

The Long March

September 12, 2012April 15, 2020 - by Amelia Schonbek

On the front lines with Quebec’s student protesters

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Media / September 2012

Editor’s Note

September 1, 2012April 14, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

I find radio and television advertising irritating. It’s intrusive and often insulting (are twentysomethings really as empty headed as they appear in Budweiser commercials?). Newspaper advertisements are less annoying—if you …

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