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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 . . .

Fake convenience store at Venice Biennale
Cities / October 2015

The Dep

September 15, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Jeannie Marshall

Quebec’s quintessential corner store sets up shop at the Venice Biennale

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Baggage tags with airport codes on them
October 2015 / Politics

Ministers of Nothing

September 15, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Robert Fulford

How Pierre Trudeau killed the cabinet

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Illustration by Chip Zdarsky
October 2015 / Visual Art

Sex Criminal

September 15, 2015April 8, 2020 - by John Semley

A lewd cartoonist reboots a squeaky-clean icon

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Stamps on a passport
October 2015 / Politics

Minority Rule by Any Other Name

September 15, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Andrew Coyne

The case against first past the post

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Clothing for inmates at prison
Justice / October 2015

Jailhouse Bloc

September 14, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Katherine Laidlaw

What it’s like to vote behind bars

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couple looking at a map
Media / October 2015

Bohemian Days on Richmond Street

September 14, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

Drawing inspiration for thewalrus.ca from an ink-stained Nostradamus

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