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November 2013

Charlotte Gray profiles NDP leader Thomas Mulcair; Taras Grescoe profiles Fort McMurray, Alberta; Zander Sherman studies alternative teacher Joe Bower; Jeet Heer reviews Clive Thompson’s new book; Shyam Selvadurai recalls when CanLit got its glam; fiction by Alix Hawley…

Illustration by Genevieve Simms
November 2013

Standard Issues

November 21, 2013February 21, 2021 - by Zander Sherman

An Alberta teacher wants to liberate our schools from the educrats

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Photograph by Tim Georgeson
November 2013

Prime Minister in Waiting

November 17, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Charlotte Gray

Can Thomas Mulcair finish the project Jack Layton started?

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Photograph by Naomi Harris
November 2013

There’s More to Fort McMurray than Oil

November 16, 2013September 21, 2021 - by Taras Grescoe

How the town plans to become a global leader in sustainable living

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Illustration by Stephen Appleby-Barr
Justice / November 2013

Forgotten Woman

November 5, 2013September 8, 2017 - by Marian Botsford Fraser

The bleak prison life of Renée Acoby

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Illustration by Alex Westgate
Books / November 2013

The First Giller

November 4, 2013July 1, 2016 - by Shyam Selvadurai

When CanLit got its glam

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Illustration by Alex Westgate
November 2013 / Poetry

Cast-offs

November 1, 2013June 16, 2016 - by Robyn Sarah

Poignancy of the discarded. The armless doll that stares from the trash heap in spring, the sagging sofa with the cat-scratched arms, the love-stained mattress in the rain. Inside-out umbrellas, …

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November 2013 / Politics

End Game

October 31, 2013July 7, 2016 - by Niall Fink

The season closes at a Yukon hunting camp

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Illustration by Kagan McLeod
Books / November 2013

Happy Medium Is the Message

October 30, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Jeet Heer

In Smarter Than You Think, Clive Thompson finds the middle ground between digital utopians and Luddite naysayers

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Illustration by Ben Clarkson
Fiction / November 2013

Daniel Boone, By Himself

October 29, 2013March 18, 2021 - by Alix Hawley

How you scalp someone is like this. Cut a small round down to the bone beneath the hair on top of the head, near the front. Put your foot on …

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Arts & Culture / November 2013

The Last Word

October 24, 2013October 16, 2019 - by Heather Cleland

Bullied as a kid, Shane Koyczan turned pain into poetry

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