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July/August 2015

Summer Reading: Suzanne Buffam, Lynn Crosbie, Laura Legge, Pasha Malla, Naben Ruthnum, and Leanne Simpson; Michael Coren changes his mind on gay marriage; the Tsilhqot’in Nation’s fight for its land; Drew Nelles on urban coyotes; Jeff Rubin examines who’s on the hook if low energy prices shut down the oil sands; Haley Mlotek asks if wearable technology can actually look good…

July/August 2015 / Poetry

i am graffiti

July 24, 2015July 24, 2020 - by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Mistakes were made

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Photograph by Birthe Piontek
July/August 2015

Title Fight

July 22, 2015January 21, 2020 - by Arno Kopecky

The Tsilhqot’in Nation got its land back. Canada will never be the same

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Illustration by Graham Roumieu
July/August 2015

Coming Out

July 21, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Michael Coren

A gay-marriage opponent changes his mind

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Coyotes walking around a city
July/August 2015

There Goes the Neighbourhood

July 14, 2015December 4, 2019 - by Drew Nelles

Why coyotes are taking over our cities

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Fiction / July/August 2015

Prends Donc Courage

July 8, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Laura Legge

Miraculous in August that the swamplands can support life. In their heat and steam, even marsh marigolds wilt, native birds hide under mud. Twenty years of this climate have driven …

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Illustration by Kyle Metcalf
July/August 2015 / Sports

The Ups and Downs of Elite Trampolining

July 3, 2015May 7, 2020 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

At this summer’s Pan Am Games, the sport will give Canada one of its best shots at gold

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Alcoholic anonymous and podium
Fiction / July/August 2015

Working Clean

July 2, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Naben Ruthnum

Richie felt around beneath the cushion he was sitting on and pulled out a miniature Raptors basketball, then started bouncing it off the wall behind the TV

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Just for laughs mascot launching a canon
Arts & Culture / July/August 2015

Live from Montreal

June 30, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Adam Sternbergh

How Just for Laughs stays funny

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contemporary art installation
July/August 2015

In Flux

June 29, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Chris Hampton

Dead animals, dildos, and detritus: the weird world of David Altmejd

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Illustration by Kyle Metcalf
July/August 2015

Phantom Limb

June 26, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Dani Couture

My mother’s suffering, from a distance

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