October 2013
Tenth anniversary collector’s edition: water by Edward Burtynsky; Russell Peters by Matthew McKinnon; Harper explained by Ron Graham; walking as a cure by Dan Rubinstein; fixing Parliament by Andew Coyne; a girl at ten by Katrina Onstad; Afghanistan again by Mellissa Fung; digital sex by Michael Harris; fiction by Lisa Moore; the next ten years by Barry Blitt…
The iPhone
The iPhone almost turned out to be a dreadful flop. Why? Because of the wheel. When Apple was secretly planning the device in the mid-2000s, the designers based it on …
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Hand Sanitizer
I don’t know how you celebrated this year’s national hand hygiene day, but the festivities were a bit muted at my place. I gave up on the themed crossword after …
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The Walking Cure
On the trail in northern Quebec—finding salvation, one step at a time
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The Residential School Apology
Last December, I witnessed a small miracle. Cancer had relegated my father to a bed in a darkened room where only his closest friends and family came to visit. On …
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Inside Joke
The post-racial comedy of Russell Peters
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Born in the Burbs
Stephen Harper explained
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