Why Are We Bombing ISIS? Our Government Has No Idea
There is little evidence the Canadian government’s analysis has gone much beyond patriotism and propaganda
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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…
How High-Interest Lenders Prey on Low-Income Canadians
The payday-loan industry is built on taking advantage of our most vulnerable
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Master of Journalism
The maverick outsider who became Nunavut’s one-man press club
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This Might Hurt
Archaic instruments from the attic of Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital
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Montana Border
He drove into Lafayette at dusk, the air thick with swamp bugs outside the windows of his truck. The fights were already on. They’d put the cage up in an …
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When Polio Walked the Earth
Notes on a forgotten disease
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Pacific Gesture
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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Suited and Booted
Paralyzed but walking—thanks to an exoskeleton
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An Older Version of Me
Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill at twenty
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