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July/August 2014

Summer Reading: fresh takes on old crimes by Mark Callanan, Jessica Grant, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Stephen Marche, and Alexandra Oliver; assessing risk in the aftermath of Lac-Mégantic; John Lorinc investigates police shootings of people with mental illnesses; Noah Richler studies a fisherman from Digby accused of smuggling cocaine into Spain…

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Health / July/August 2014

Viral Agent

July 28, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Lisan Jutras

A forgotten weapon for the post-antibiotic era

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July/August 2014

The Trials of Philip Halliday

July 25, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Noah Richler

Did an out-of-work fisherman from Digby knowingly smuggle one and a half tons of cocaine into Spain?

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Investigation tape that reads "Do not cross" is tangled up in a ball
July/August 2014 / Poetry

Watching the Cop Show in Bed

July 23, 2014November 22, 2022 - by Alexandra Oliver

Apparently, it’s very, very bad to let a well-dressed man into your home. An Oxbridge accent, coupled with the claim your husband’s hurt, and he’s from Scotland Yard: disaster! When …

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Fiction / July/August 2014

Ultrasound

July 21, 2014November 22, 2022 - by Stephen Marche

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 representing “of no interest to me” and 10 representing “of maximum interest to me,” the rapes in my neighbourhood rated a …

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Three policemen holding pointed guns toward someone wearing a hospital gown
July/August 2014

Stand Down

July 16, 2014May 8, 2021 - by John Lorinc

All too often, the victims of police shootings are people with mental illness. One American city has found a solution

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July/August 2014

The Score

July 16, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Jeet Heer

Days in the lives of Ottawa staffers

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Fiction / July/August 2014

Brute

July 15, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Jessica Grant

One exercise I do is, I look out the window at the pigeons in the wishbone trees, and I imagine not eating them. Imagine one fell out of a tree …

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Books / July/August 2014

The Pen and the Sword

July 14, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Alec Scott

Revisiting the culture wars over World War I

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Dog hiding in a desk, with yellow stuff on his mouth
Fiction / July/August 2014

Care and Feeding of the Amish

July 8, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

It took the class some doing to ambush, tackle, and finally capture the boy. They hid themselves on a stretch of the 62 just north of Ivanhoe and waited, giggling …

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July/August 2014

X Marks the Spot

July 7, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Heather Cleland

Two hundred years later, the treasure hunters of Oak Island are still looking

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