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October 2015

Sasha Chapman explains why we throw away more than 6 million tonnes of groceries every year; John Lorinc asks do we really need school board trustees; Robert Fulford recalls how Pierre Trudeau killed the cabinet; Andrew Coyne makes the case against first past the post; the world’s oldest noise band turns fifty; fiction by Kris Bertin . . .

Illustration by Sonia Roy
Feature / October 2015

Why Do Canadians Throw Away 6 Million Tonnes of Groceries Every Year?

October 21, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Sasha Chapman

In 2015 I resolved to waste less food. It was harder than I thought

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Illustration by Jeannie Phan
Feature / October 2015

Class Dismissed

October 15, 2015April 8, 2020 - by John Lorinc

Do we really need school board trustees?

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Illustration by Adrienne Kammerer
Feature / October 2015 / The Walrus True Crime

Breaking the Pig Farmer

October 14, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Lori Shenher

Inside the interrogation of Robert Pickton

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Illustration by Tom Froese
October 2015 / Poetry

What Is Poetry?

September 22, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Susan Holbrook

trite yap show rosy twit heap posterity haw a wept history it’s yawp rot, eh a wisher potty a power shitty a whitey sport poetry is what whips yo tater …

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Illustration by Tom Froese
October 2015 / Poetry

Mavis Gallant

September 22, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Matt Rader

(for Elizabeth Bachinsky, with a line from Maggie Nelson) All our poems now are for people we know And our babies. It’s 1846. In the North Charitable Infirmary, the musical …

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Comic by Seth
Comics / October 2015

Shining World

September 21, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Seth

Episode eight of ten

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Photograph courtesy of Tara Fillion
Music / October 2015

No Birthday

September 18, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Chris Hampton

The world’s oldest noise band turns fifty

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Punch Bowl at Cocktail Party
October 2015 / Technology

Number Cruncher

September 17, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

Coffee and quantum physics with the Liberals’ digital savant

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Colour figures outstretched
Fiction / October 2015

Cowan

September 17, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Kris Bertin

Cowan was beautiful. I wouldn’t admit it back then, but he was. Had a face like Gregory Peck at a time when the rest of us were still working off …

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Book jacket for That Lonely Section of Hell
Books / October 2015

Coming Back from Hell

September 15, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Stacey May Fowles

In a new memoir, former detective Lori Shenher revisits the Robert Pickton case, and grapples with the trauma it left behind

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