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March 2013

Rachel Giese investigates the mainstreaming of mental illness; Sasha Chapman studies Canada’s role in the worldwide collapse of honeybee colonies; Nobel laureate Mark Jaccard explains why he found himself blocking a coal train; Sarah Selecky takes Lainey Lui’s master class on celebrity culture; fiction by Zoey Leigh Peterson…

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March 2013

The Accidental Activist

March 28, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Mark Jaccard

How an energy economist and former government adviser found himself blocking a coal train

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Illustration by Sonia Roy
March 2013

The New Normal

March 4, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Rachel Giese

Canada’s largest mental health facility is undergoing a multimillion-dollar facelift that reflects a greater cultural shift, the mainstreaming of mental illness

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A magazine layout from The Walrus magazine with the image of barbed wire in the front and a small picture of Omar Khadr with the text "The Black Hole of Guantanamo Bay" written below it.
Justice / March 2013

Insecurity Complex

February 18, 2013August 27, 2021 - by Andrew Potter

Omar Khadr and the legacy of Guantánamo Bay

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Environment / March 2013

New Waves

February 18, 2013July 17, 2019 - by Erika Thorkelson

As Japan’s tsunami debris washes up on the BC coast, beachcombers consider the meaning of the refuse

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Illustration by Katty Maurey
Fiction / March 2013

How Long and What a Marvel

February 18, 2013May 22, 2020 - by Zoey Leigh Peterson

My grandfather died while causing a seven-hour delay of game, which, according to the other grandpas, is how they all want to go now. It was the first game of …

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Photograph by Cory Sheffield
Environment / March 2013

Fight of the Bumblebee

February 13, 2013May 29, 2020 - by Sasha Chapman

Honeybee colonies are collapsing around the world, putting food production in danger. We may need Canada’s indigenous pollinators to save the day

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March 2013

Tough Guys

February 11, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Alec Scott

The rediscovery of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright reveals an obsession with masculinity’s soft underbelly

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March 2013 / Sports

Northern Star

February 11, 2013July 7, 2016 - by Sam Sutherland

National Lacrosse League captain Colin Doyle doesn’t play for fame and fortune

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March 2013 / Poetry

A Valentine

February 11, 2013July 20, 2017 - by Daryl Hine

Were that I were immovable as rock While you were irresistible as water! As it is, I wince at every shock Who ought to be absorbent as a blotter. My …

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March 2013

Oh, Rats!

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Alberta re-enlists in the war against a whiskered invader

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