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June 2013

Richard Poplak profiles Christine Sinclair, the world’s greatest female soccer player; Matthew J. Bellamy explains how Labatt made Canada a nation of beer drinkers; Alison Motluk questions whether strep throat is making children mentally ill; Jay Ingram ponders the knuckleball; fiction by Craig Davidson…

Illustration by Gracia Lam
Feature / June 2013

A Feverish Debate

June 21, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Alison Motluk

Are common bacterial infections making children mentally ill?

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Christine Sinclair runs on the soccer field.
Feature / June 2013

The Game Not Played

June 15, 2013December 18, 2019 - by Richard Poplak

Christine Sinclair, the greatest female soccer player in the world, won’t get the career she deserves

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Illustration by Ross MacDonald
Feature / June 2013

Under the Influence

June 13, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Matthew J. Bellamy

Beer is to Canada as wine is to France. How Labatt and its allies brewed up a nation of beer drinkers

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June 2013 / Society

I Do

June 4, 2013August 28, 2017 - by Denise Balkissoon

Why marriage still matters

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June 2013 / Society

Freedom for Religion

June 3, 2013August 28, 2017 - by Brent Hawkes

“Thank God for Canada”

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June 2013 / Poetry

Saskatoon to Coaldale, July, Highway

May 30, 2013July 20, 2017 - by Barbara Nickel

Not Winnifred the town we couldn’t see. The fox we weren’t sure was a fox but might have been if not a mutt. Not the way we— the air conditioning—not …

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Environment / June 2013

Cache-22

May 29, 2013July 17, 2019 - by Conor Mihell

A hard-luck town competes for Canada’s nuclear waste

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Artwork by Isabelle Hayeur
Fiction / June 2013

Firebugs

May 28, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Craig Davidson

There are shapes that only live in fire. Hunger. Fire’s basic drive. The purest, most incarnate hunger you can imagine. Nothing mankind has ever assembled is impervious. I’ve seen fire …

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Rendering courtesy of Bing Thom Architects
Cities / June 2013

The Zen Master

May 27, 2013August 22, 2017 - by Witold Rybczynski

Vancouver’s Bing Thom takes his place among the world’s A-list architects

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Illustration by Ryan Heshka
June 2013 / Poetry

Seasons in the Abyss

May 24, 2013June 22, 2016 - by Michael Robbins

Du Fu, you doofus, that’s not a goose. You’re drunk. Please allow me to introduce… no, that’s not your horse. (No, nor woman neither.) Into every life a little Freud …

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