The Accidental Activist
How an energy economist and former government adviser found himself blocking a coal train
Read MoreMarch 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…
The New Normal
Canada’s largest mental health facility is undergoing a multimillion-dollar facelift that reflects a greater cultural shift, the mainstreaming of mental illness
Read MoreInsecurity Complex
Omar Khadr and the legacy of Guantánamo Bay
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How Long and What a Marvel
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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Fight of the Bumblebee
Honeybee colonies are collapsing around the world, putting food production in danger. We may need Canada’s indigenous pollinators to save the day
Read MoreTough Guys
The rediscovery of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright reveals an obsession with masculinity’s soft underbelly
Read MoreNorthern Star
National Lacrosse League captain Colin Doyle doesn’t play for fame and fortune
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A Valentine
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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