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December 2012

Evan Fraser and Andrew Rimas ponder how to feed nine billion people; Mark Leiren-Young profiles Kalle Lasn, the revolutionary publisher of Adbusters; Jasmine Budak rethinks adoption; Dan Falk explains the current wave of popular physics; Robert Calder on the mystique of the Saskatchewan Roughriders; fiction by Stephen Marche…

Photograph by Grant Harder
December 2012

His One Demand

December 26, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Mark Leiren-Young

Kalle Lasn, the revolutionary publisher of Adbusters, is the brains behind the Occupy movement. Next up: a takedown of classical economic theory

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Illustration by Team Macho
December 2012

Canada’s Most Unwanted

December 19, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Jasmine Budak

With rising infertility rates and the availability of foreign infants declining, some 30,000 children in government care have a better shot at finding a family

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Photograph by Christopher Stevenson
December 2012

How to Feed Nine Billion

December 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Evan Fraser

Droughts, commodity speculation, and growing demand are placing an unprecedented strain on our global food system. Can we avoid a full-blown crisis?

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December 2012 / Poetry

Dark One Rising

December 2, 2012July 20, 2017 - by A.F. Moritz

Once I was going to call my book Dark One Rising and Don McKay rescued me from that idiocy, and it was christened Song of Fear after its natural parents …

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December 2012

Under One Queen

December 2, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Jason Sherman

This appeared in the December 2012 issue.

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Illustration by Kathryn Macnaughton
December 2012 / Fiction

Flesh and Numbers

November 27, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Stephen Marche

The boots were ankle high, smooth red leather Louboutins with crystal studs, on sale for $339.99. “Buy them,” Tom told Salma, suffused with the generosity of the three local beers …

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Photograph by Jody Rogac
Business / December 2012

Embedded with the .01 Percent

November 26, 2012July 1, 2020 - by John Lorinc

In her new book, Plutocrats, journalist Chrystia Freeland reveals the troubling hegemony of the world’s most exclusive club: billionaires

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Photograph courtesy of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives/Archives of Manitoba (HBCA 2012/1/100)
December 2012

Reel Life

November 26, 2012October 23, 2019 - by Chris Nikkel

Screening one of Canada’s oldest documentaries on the shores of Alert Bay

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Illustration by Neil Doshi
December 2012 / Science

The God Particle

November 19, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Dan Falk

What explains the current wave of popular physics?

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Photograph by the Canadian Press/Troy Fleece
December 2012 / Sports

What’s Green and White and Loved All Over?

November 19, 2012August 17, 2017 - by Robert Calder

The mystique of the Saskatchewan Roughriders

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