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March 2015

Emily Landau looks back on two decades of life on antidepressants; Ken Dryden revisits Scotland’s referendum; David Macfarlane explains how Mavis Gallant died penniless in Paris; Lisan Jutras profiles Sheila Heti; Kaitlin Fontana visits the set of Schitt’s Creek; Naheed Mustafa details the marketing strategy of the Islamic State; poetry by Michael Prior and Don Coles . . .

Illustration by Kagan McLeod
March 2015

The Other Referendum

March 25, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Ken Dryden

Awaiting the United Kingdom’s fate in the pubs of Scotland

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March 2015

Traces of Mavis

March 18, 2015April 10, 2020 - by David Macfarlane

How a great Canadian writer died penniless in Paris

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Photography by Grant Harder
March 2015

Boom

March 12, 2015January 26, 2020 - by Andrea Bennett

What happens when you take on the gas industry—and your neighbours—in a small British Columbia town

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March 2015

Beginnings

February 24, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Seth

Episode two of ten

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Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
Environment / March 2015

Sucked Dry

February 23, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Josiah Neufeld

A First Nations suffers so Winnipeg can have water

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Illustration by Jeannie Phan
Books / March 2015

Choose Your Own Ending

February 23, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Michael LaPointe

Why there are so many books about death and dying

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Illustration by Tanya Lam
March 2015 / Society

Hello, Dollies

February 20, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Stephen Marche

What the Canadian take on American Girls says about our grown-up obsessions

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March 2015 / Memoir

After Two Decades on Antidepressants, Who Am I?

February 19, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Emily Landau

I was diagnosed with a mental illness at age eleven and joined one of the first generations to grow up on prescription pills

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Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
March 2015 / Technology

Rise of the RoboNurse

February 19, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Gary Stephen Ross

A UBC professor is engineering a new type of caregiver

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Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
March 2015

With a Paddle

February 17, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kaitlin Fontana

On the set of Schitt’s Creek

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