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April 2015

The cities issue: potholes in Edmonton by Michael Hingston; houses in Iqaluit and Nain by Kyle Carsten Wyatt; policing in Toronto by Desmond Cole; television in Regina by Wanda Schmöckel; magic in Montreal by Joseph Culpepper and Marilyn Aitken; punk rock fiction, set in Halifax, by Alex Pugsley; Americans in Vancouver by Gary Stephen Ross…

submarine with people visible inside it
April 2015 / Feature

Under Pressure

April 23, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Nathan M. Greenfield

In defence of Canada’s submarines

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Photograph by Nich Hance McElroy
April 2015 / Feature

Team America

April 19, 2015December 7, 2019 - by Gary Stephen Ross

How US expats are quietly reshaping Vancouver

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Illustration by Walter Scott
April 2015 / Poetry

Uranium Heritage Day

March 27, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Jeff Latosik

The city was built on Cambrian rifts, boot-sucking mud, a rush to stake alliances. Now it’s birch, white pine, and alder creaking, a low, flat tailings pond where nothing thrives. …

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Illustration by Walter Scott
April 2015 / Poetry

The Villains

March 27, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Alexandra Oliver

I always went for darkness as a girl: those ashy Europeans wrapped in capes, the ranks of zombies browsing in the mall, the cabin-dwelling fan with swelling hopes, her novelist …

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April 2015 / Fiction

Changeling Girl

March 26, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Alex Pugsley

The next montage, in my mind, explodes with the rackety audacity that starts up a Clash song. It’s the moment when some crumb-bum kid in a basement finally solves the …

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Nickelback tour bus pelted with eggs and spraypainted
April 2015 / Music

Too Bad

March 25, 2015April 10, 2020 - by John Semley

Why we hate Nickelback—and why that’s okay

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Illustration by Walter Scott
April 2015 / Television

Talk of the Towns

March 24, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Wanda Schmöckel

Saskatchewan is hooked on local TV

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a sculpture of a house in the arctic
April 2015 / Society

A Better Place to Skin a Seal

March 20, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

Solving the Canadian Arctic’s housing crisis requires a new kind of house

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Illustration of gravel and asphalt
April 2015 / Cities

Asphalt Nerds

March 19, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Michael Hingston

The alchemy of pavement in Canada’s pothole capital

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woman looking at face in mirror
April 2015 / Books

Rise of the Gender Novel

March 18, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Casey Plett

Too often, trans characters are written as tortured heroes. We’re more complex than that

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