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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…

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

Part of the Main

July 3, 2014November 22, 2022 - by Mark Callanan

You might say that a clod washed away diminishes the whole, the contours of the land effaced by saintly patience of the tide, which knows that in time its tiny …

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Photograph by Benoit Aquin
July/August 2014

Runaway Train

July 1, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Benoit Aquin

Assessing risk in the aftermath of Lac-Mégantic

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July/August 2014

Glass Boy

June 30, 2014April 14, 2020 - by John Semley

A hardcore punk front man grows up

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A drawing of a woman with floral patterns around her
July/August 2014

What a Feeling!

June 23, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Bill Reynolds

The high-minded writer behind Flashdance the Musical

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An alligator that says "Miscellany" in its mouth
July/August 2014 / World

Putin’s Move

June 16, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Lucan Way

The collapse of Ukraine’s Faustian bargain

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A bullfighting scene
July/August 2014 / Sports

Life in the Afternoon

June 16, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Kelli María Korducki

The bloodless bullfighting of Dundalk, Ontario

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Business / July/August 2014

Editor’s Note

June 16, 2014April 14, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

The first fishermen to employ nets were soon followed by others, and likewise the first farmers to fertilize their fields. Humans are by nature copycats, driven by self-interest to emulate …

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