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April 2013

Nicholas Hune-Brown ponders the end of marijuana prohibition; Katherine Ashenburg profiles Alberta premier Alison Redford; Bryne Purchase explains why events like climate change are inevitable; Sarah Liss analyzes poet Anne Carson’s penchant for remaking mythology; Pasha Malla decodes the first couple of cryptography…

Illustration by Benoit Tardif
April 2013 / Music

All Together Now!

April 3, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

Community choirs and the popularity of amateur culture

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April 2013 / Cities

Life Line

April 2, 2013April 6, 2017 - by Margo Pfeiff

Inuit find a future in the dirty secrets of Canada’s largest Cold War radar station

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April 2013 / Poetry

At the Museum of Science and Technology

March 28, 2013July 20, 2017 - by Jeff Latosik

i. m. Hugh Le Caine Here are the grossly educational displays: giant holograms, electric guitars strung with light, and nebulae spread out onto canvas that might fold up neatly in …

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Illustration by Ben Weeks
April 2013 / Feature

Mortal Hazard

March 27, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Bryne Purchase

Why catastrophic events like the sub-prime mortgage crisis and climate change are inevitable

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Photograph courtesy of National Museums Liverpool
April 2013 / Arts & Culture

Grave Injustice

March 26, 2013September 12, 2020 - by Lyndsie Bourgon

The Haida Nation’s quest to repatriate the stolen bodies of its ancestors

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Illustration by Beata Kruszynski
April 2013 / Poetry

Transit

March 25, 2013June 22, 2016 - by Susan Holbrook

Shambling through sand in Patagonia and Columbia wear, we queue up for a rare chance to be wowed. The Sky News guy twiddles the azimuth knob, lures us with the …

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April 2013 / Society

Flight Risk

March 21, 2013July 14, 2016 - by Carol Shaben

Why small commercial aviation is still unsafe

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April 2013 / Memoir

The Meaning of White

March 20, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Emily Urquhart

Science can explain why my daughter has a genetic disorder called albinism, but it is in stories that I find comfort

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April 2013 / Technology

BlackBerry’s Boom

March 19, 2013October 6, 2018 - by Brianna Goldberg

How the Canadian smart phone became a Nigerian status symbol

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April 2013 / Technology

Alice and Bob

March 18, 2013July 12, 2016 - by Pasha Malla

The first couple of cryptography

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