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May 2015

Katherine Ashenburg explains why our kids aren’t sleeping, and what we all can do about it; Atom Egoyan on the Armenian genocide; Astra Taylor makes the case for a Netflix tax; Adele Weder ponders the future of wooden skyscrapers; Ed Tubb investigates what happens when pedophiles are released from prison; fiction by Jill Sexsmith…

child looking at at screen in bed
May 2015

Time for Bed

May 21, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Katherine Ashenburg

Your kids aren’t sleeping enough—and neither are you

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Illustration by Byron Eggenschwiler
May 2015

Minding the Monster

May 10, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Ed Tubb

A pedophile gets out of prison. What happens next?

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Illustration by Ashley MacKenzie
May 2015 / Society

In Denial

April 20, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Atom Egoyan

The Armenian genocide, a century later

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Comic by Seth
May 2015

Ticket Taker

April 17, 2015October 5, 2022 - by Seth

Episode four of ten

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Fiction / May 2015

Airplanes Couldn’t Be Happier in Turbulence

April 17, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Jill Sexsmith

Ever since Madison watched King Kong on TV she’s been having fantasies about scaling the Empire State Building with him. That big ape carrying her into the clouds, clutching her …

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Illustration by Ashley MacKenzie
May 2015 / Poetry

Et in Arcadia Ego

April 16, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Chad Campbell

Hard to make out a particular figure: the faces pressed to the portholes, seeds stowed in oily cloth, or the hold altering under a swaying lamp. The actual vessel and …

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Illustration by Ashley MacKenzie
May 2015 / Society

Bugging You

April 16, 2015April 10, 2020 - by J. R. McConvey

An Ontario company puts insects on the menu

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Illustration by Ashley MacKenzie
May 2015 / Society

All Ashore

April 15, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Laura Trethewey

Sunny Bute just wants to live on his boat

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Arts & Culture / May 2015

Betty Cooper Is a Psychopath

April 15, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Bart Beaty

The inner lives of Archie and gang

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Photograph by Armin Kübelbeck
May 2015 / Politics

Vancouver Buyers Club

April 14, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Donald MacPherson and Nicholas Klassen

Safe injection sites save lives—but Ottawa still doesn’t care

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