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June 2015

Patrick Graham reports on why everything we know about ISIS is wrong; Christopher Pollon on the troubling rise of the payday-loan industry; Kaitlin Fontana remembers Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill as the album turns twenty; Omar Mouallem follows Halifax’s favourite street meat, the donair, to Alberta; photos of archaic medical instruments from the attic of Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital…

Photograph by Moises Saman
June 2015

Why Are We Bombing ISIS? Our Government Has No Idea

June 25, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Patrick Graham

There is little evidence the Canadian government’s analysis has gone much beyond patriotism and propaganda

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Run running with ball and chain
June 2015

How High-Interest Lenders Prey on Low-Income Canadians

June 19, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Christopher Pollon

The payday-loan industry is built on taking advantage of our most vulnerable

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June 2015 / Media

Master of Journalism

May 28, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

The maverick outsider who became Nunavut’s one-man press club

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old medical instruments
June 2015

This Might Hurt

May 28, 2015May 12, 2022 - by Nik Mirus

Archaic instruments from the attic of Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital

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Fiction / June 2015

Montana Border

May 27, 2015April 8, 2021 - by Kevin Hardcastle

He drove into Lafayette at dusk, the air thick with swamp bugs outside the windows of his truck. The fights were already on.

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children on crutches playing in field
June 2015 / Memoir

When Polio Walked the Earth

May 27, 2015April 11, 2020 - by Peter Kavanagh

Notes on a forgotten disease

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cars inverting on a road
June 2015 / Poetry

Pacific Gesture

May 26, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Andy McGuire

Your roundabout reasons why You re-gifted yourself to the sea Slid through my mail slot nonchalantly, Sealed in a manila love tunnel, Like a hydro wire wearing One too many …

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Illustration by Connor Willumsen
June 2015 / Technology

Suited and Booted

May 26, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Dan Rubinstein

Paralyzed but walking—thanks to an exoskeleton

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June 2015

A Flower

May 25, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Seth

Episode five of ten

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CD player and jagged little pill
June 2015

An Older Version of Me

May 22, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kaitlin Fontana

Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill at twenty

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