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April 2014

Rachel Giese investigates the new sex ed for boys; Charles Foran profiles Joseph Boyden; David Berlin remembers the 1960s; Emily Landau reads new-adult literature; Lisan Jutras meets the hardest-working porn star in the business; poetry by P.C., Kayla Czaga, and Pasha Malla; fiction by Stephen Finucan…

Photograph by Raina Kirn and Wilson Barry
April 2014 / Feature

The Talk

April 30, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Rachel Giese

A new sex ed program for boys asks them to explore the question of what makes a good man

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Three men standing on a stage in front of a crowd, one of them talking into a microphone
April 2014 / Feature

Chimes of Freedom

April 24, 2014April 14, 2020 - by David Berlin

Were the ’60s really so special?

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Man in front of trees
April 2014 / Feature

Revision Quest

April 17, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Charles Foran

Joseph Boyden set out to explore his First Nations roots. What he discovered has changed the national conversation

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Illustration by Ethan Rilly
April 2014 / Comics

Royal Flush

April 9, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Jeet Heer

Days in the lives of Ottawa staffers

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Illustration by Alëna Skarina
April 2014 / Cities

Back to the Drafting Table

April 8, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Hans Ibelings

What Belgium can teach us about better architecture

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Illustration by Sergio Membrillas
April 2014 / Fiction

The Navigator

April 7, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Stephen Finucan

He caught pneumonia and nearly died. It was 1972. The Summit Series year. But he wasn’t a hockey fan, hadn’t watched a single game, not even when the television was …

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April 2014 / Poetry

Victoria Soto

April 3, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Kayla Czaga

In the poem I show to no one, a young teacher hides her students from a gunman, lifts them into cupboards—her hands smoothing their hair, closing cupboard doors. Thousands of …

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Illustration of three birds
April 2014 / Politics

What Not to Wear

April 2, 2014April 14, 2020 - by The Walrus

Quebec’s Charter of Values debate gets testy

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Illustration of a film roll with a man holding a sword, with a fire flame at the bottom
April 2014 / Film

Slow Dissolve

April 1, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Jason McBride

Why has it become almost impossible to make a documentary in Canada?

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Illustration of a tree trunk with leaves and a worm
April 2014 / Poetry

Happiness

March 27, 2014April 14, 2020 - by P.C.

Happiness is fine, from twelve to twenty-nine. But thinning haired and thirty, you crave the sure and sturdy. You seek a house and wife and benefits—a life, built to your …

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