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December 2013

David Wilson flies again with the Twin Otter; John Lorinc takes the pulse of organized labour; Stacey May Fowles remembers growing up in the shadow of Paul Bernardo; Masa Takei describes how to get a gun; Denise Balkissoon profiles Edmonton youth worker Mark Cherrington; Waubgeshig Rice kicks it with A Tribe Called Red…

Illustration by Mark Cabuena
December 2013

Hello to Arms

November 18, 2013July 6, 2017 - by Masa Takei

How to get a gun

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Art by Aurel Schmidt
December 2013

Five Contemporary Artists to Watch

November 12, 2013April 6, 2017 - by Brian Morgan

Introducing Melanie Authier, Raymond Boisjoly, Julia Dault, Jessica Eaton, and Aurel Schmidt

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Photograph by Pat Bolduc
December 2013

Electric Powwow

November 11, 2013June 22, 2021 - by Waubgeshig Rice

A Tribe Called Red creates the urban Aboriginal soundtrack

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Photograph by Fabrice Strippoli
December 2013 / Memoir

When Paul Bernardo Stalked My Neighbourhood

November 11, 2013May 27, 2022 - by Stacey May Fowles

What it was like to grow up in a community that lived in fear of the Scarborough Rapist

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Illustration by Mark Cabuena
December 2013 / Politics

The Empty Chair

November 11, 2013July 19, 2016 - by Brendan Brady

Harper boycotts the Commonwealth summit

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Illustration by Brian Morgan
December 2013

Editor’s Note

November 11, 2013April 13, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

As a child, I didn’t pay much attention to airplanes. Like most boys at the time, I was obsessed with cars. (When I was a teenager in the ’50s, my …

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