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May 2013

Lisa Fitterman profiles Justice France Charbonneau, the steely calm at the helm of Quebec’s corruption inquiry; Kwame McKenzie delves inside the controversial new DSM–5; Linda Besner discovers Montreal’s vibrant Deaf culture; fiction by Shaena Lambert; poetry by Amanda Jernigan and Nick Thran…

May 2013

Rising Son Blues

May 7, 2013August 28, 2017 - by Lynn Cunningham

Boop goes solo

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Illustration by Melinda Josie
May 2013 / Society

Cross Purposes

May 6, 2013June 22, 2016 - by Hillary Kaell

The meaning of Quebec’s croix de chemin

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May 2013 / Poetry

Elpenor for Yusef

May 2, 2013July 20, 2017 - by Nick Thran

When he broke, he broke like an oak box full of castanets tossed into the frozen river. He broke like a stuntman through the plate glass of Odysseus’ conscience. Broke …

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May 2013 / Media

Breaking News

May 1, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Shelley Page

Can the paywall save Canadian newspapers?

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broken bottle of milk
May 2013 / Society

The Lost Plague

April 30, 2013March 27, 2020 - by John Douglas Belshaw

Why we have forgotten one of Canada’s most devastating smallpox epidemics

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Illustration by Adrienne Kammerer
May 2013

Trials and Error

April 29, 2013September 9, 2020 - by Julian Sher

Bad forensic evidence and junk science continue to send innocent people to jail

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Photograph courtesy of the Edmonton Journal
Environment / May 2013

Tinker, Tailings

April 25, 2013July 17, 2019 - by Geoff Dembicki

After forty years, an Alberta inventor still thinks he can clean up the oil sands

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Photography by François Pesant
Arts & Culture / May 2013

The Power of Montreal’s Thriving Deaf Community

April 23, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Linda Besner

Discovering Montreal’s vibrant Deaf culture

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Illustration by Erin McPhee
Fiction / May 2013

Oh, My Darling

April 22, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Shaena Lambert

Hello Vanessa. Such a lovely name, with that sensual V, and those three satiny syllables. Va-ness-a. None of that diminutive stuff for me. No Nessa or Ness or, dear God, …

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Illustration by Melinda Josie
May 2013 / Poetry

Encounter

April 18, 2013June 22, 2016 - by Amanda Jernigan

A friend, seeing his babe in ultrasound, imagined it an astronaut, “behind glass dome reflections, lost in space…,” and so I had that image close to mind when the technician …

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