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May 2014

Marci McDonald profiles Jason Kenney, the right winger who wants Stephen Harper’s job; Jaime Hogge and Ian Brown ponder Down syndrome in the age of prenatal testing; Jeremy Keehn examines the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge; Sarah Milroy reviews Kent Monkman’s new art show; fiction by Terry Griggs…

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May 2014

Is Jason Kenney Too Extreme for the Conservatives?

May 28, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Marci McDonald

The Alberta politician is a contender to lead the country, but he may not be interested in courting the centre

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Toilets
May 2014

The Toilet Papers

May 14, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Jeremy Keehn

Can a high-tech sanitation appliance save lives in poor countries?

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May 2014

Proroguing Problems

May 7, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Jeet Heer

Days in the lives of Ottawa staffers

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Health / May 2014

Forget About It

May 6, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Eric Bélisle

Why online brain checkups may be bad for you

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Fiction / May 2014

Juno Pluvia

May 5, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Terry Griggs

My cousin? Nile? Never mind, file him under “women’s troubles” and forget about him. We have other coronary matters to consider. For instance, the unnamed man who washed up on …

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May 2014 / Poetry

Lostlandia

May 1, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Stewart Cole

The national anthem’s a strange genre: pomp straining to conjure a circumstance under which a love song to a shaded patch on the map isn’t just sad, a train wreck …

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Books / May 2014

In Our Nature

April 30, 2014August 8, 2020 - by Michael LaPointe

Three writers try to restore our relationship with the environment

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Arts & Culture / May 2014

Double-Doublethink

April 29, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Gerry Flahive

On fifty years of Tim Hortons tyranny

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May 2014 / Poetry

Martini

April 24, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Patrick Warner

I’m too young to have heard of Dorothy Parker. If you ask me what a martini is, I will say it’s Tom Thumb’s smaller cousin, Martin. If you ask me …

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May 2014 / Politics

Justin and Gerald

April 23, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Scott Reid

The future of the Liberal Party depends on a lifelong friendship

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