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September 2015

Jonathan Kay gets behind the wheel to find out the truth about Uber; Richard Poplak investigates Dr. Shock; Lisa Moore reviews four authors reinventing the short story; Lana Šlezić photographs the physical traces of residential schools; Laura Trethewey visits a medical marijuana dispensary in Vancouver…

Illustration by Michael Byers
September 2015

Uber vs Taxi

September 24, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

Ride-sharing apps like Uber are revolutionizing the way we travel and cabs are struggling to keep up

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Man in hat under red lighting
September 2015

Dr. Shock

September 19, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Richard Poplak

How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Alberta

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Illustration by Sous Sous
Fiction / September 2015

The Last Cut

August 26, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kathy Page

Winter sunlight streamed in through the plate-glass windows at the front of the salon; it was early still, and Eric’s new client Cara—naturally chestnut, ivory skin—sat swathed in a black …

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Man and child reading
Books / September 2015

Diving In

August 25, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Lisa Moore

Four authors reinvent the short story

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Illustration by Mügluck
September 2015 / World

Charter Flight

August 25, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Hattie Klotz

Babysitting the Magna Carta

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Illustration by Sam Island
Books / September 2015

The Cheshire Cat’s Grin

August 24, 2015April 10, 2020 - by David Day

Solving the greatest mystery of Wonderland, 150 years later

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Man running from stone
September 2015 / Society

Saint-Laurent’s Ghosts

August 21, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Ezra Glinter

Jewish Montreal’s landmark tombstone store ditches the Main

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Comic strip about success
September 2015

Success

August 21, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Seth

Episode seven of ten

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illustration of man in forest
Poetry / September 2015

Sunflower Guardians

August 20, 2015April 13, 2021 - by Hoa Nguyen

Draw your name many times stylized and embarrassed Call them catkins yer name writ there Don’t pull the wild amaranth I said The old Ford Galaxie 500 and cats can …

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illustration of man in forest
Poetry / September 2015

Yield

August 20, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Michael Crummey

My wife is in the field, scouting a proposed route for transmission towers, sent ahead of the engineers through bird habitat earmarked to funnel Labrador’s bridled electrical yield across bog …

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