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October 2012

Ken Coates and Bill Morrison detail the uses and abuses of university; Michael Harris profiles Joseph Arvay, Canada’s best interpreter of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Tom Jokinen goes inside the ranks of the new New Democrats; Stacey May Fowles on the hard-luck heroines of Canadian literature; fiction by Michael Crummey…

October 2012 / Poetry

The Buried Hatchet

October 24, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Jason Guriel

begins to biodegrade and—in the style of drums of waste in shallow if not porous graves— poisons the soil beside the river, turning to bilge all of the water you …

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October 2012 / Poetry

Impasse

October 13, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Robyn Sarah

As illness makes us live hour by hour, revising our day as we go. As winter plants a great snowy foot in our path. As glass baffles the fly. How …

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Comics / October 2012

No Guts, No Glory

October 1, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Jason Sherman

This appeared in the October 2012 issue.

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Books / October 2012

Good Books

October 1, 2012October 1, 2018 - by Sarah Treleaven

A Palestinian bookseller in Jerusalem wins his public relations campaign

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October 2012 / Poetry

Water Conscious

October 1, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Helen Guri

Cry in the shower. Save yourself a rainstorm: listen to the basketballs falling tropically on the neighbour’s court. Drop-kick a potted cactus for its dram of ooze. Lick your wounds …

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Photograph by Johann Wall
October 2012 / Society

Civil Warrior

October 1, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Vancouver lawyer Joseph Arvay is the best interpreter of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. No one, perhaps, has had more influence on contemporary Canadian life and values

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October 2012 / World

A Humble Architect

September 24, 2012October 1, 2018 - by Witold Rybczynski

Moshe Safdie has designed buildings around the world for almost fifty years but doesn’t have an identifiable style. His latest work, an Arkansas art museum funded by Walmart heiress Alice Walton, illustrates why it doesn’t matter

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The Uses and Abuses of University
Education / October 2012

The Uses and Abuses of University

September 24, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Ken Coates

Canada’s post-secondary education system is failing our students, and our economy

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Photograph by Gary Alpert
Environment / October 2012

Bugging Out

September 24, 2012July 17, 2019 - by Jude Isabella

European fire ants invade BC’s Lower Mainland

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Illustration by Robin Cameron
October 2012 / Politics

La Province Narcissique

September 18, 2012July 16, 2019 - by Daniel Poliquin

It hardly seems possible, but Quebec is more self-absorbed today than it was fifty years ago

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