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December 2015

Don Gillmor revisits the early days of the oil patch; Wanda Schmöckel investigates fish fraud at the grocery store; Richard Kelly Kemick lords over his Christmas village; Peter Kavanagh says enough with Scandinavia chic; poetry by Joanna Lilley, Souvankham Thammavongsa, and George Elliott Clarke . . .

Cover photograph by A.Y. Owen/Getty/Life

Images courtesy of Science Museum/Wellcome Images, with the exception of No. 2 (National Library of Medicine)
December 2015 / Feature

Doctors without Science

December 19, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Philip E. Tetlock

A brief history of quackery, from leeches to ostrich eggs

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Photograph by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images
December 2015 / Memoir

The Roughneck Diaries

November 25, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

Remembering when the oil sands were young

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Photograph courtesy of Comedy Central
December 2015 / Television

Nathan for Everyone

November 24, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Kaitlin Fontana

The comedic upstart behind Dumb Starbucks gets smart

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Fish swimming near a mill
December 2015 / Society

Fish Fraud

November 23, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Nicola Temple

Bait and switch at the grocery store

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Dog looking at projector
December 2015 / Technology

Digitizing the Dead

November 23, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Wanda Schmöckel

The Mormon mission to save souls—and Saskatchewan’s public archives

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Hockey player standing defiantly
December 2015 / Sports

Hockey’s Puppy Mill

November 20, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Nicholas Hune-Brown

A former junior player takes the CHL to court

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Comic by Seth
Comics / December 2015

Epilogue

November 20, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Seth

Episode ten of ten

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The word miscellany written with different letters
December 2015 / Technology

Me against the Troll Army

November 19, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Russell Wangersky

It’s time to get rid of online comments

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Drunk on oil book cover
December 2015 / Poetry

Waterlogged

November 18, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Joanna Lilley

The body in the sea at Elie was hers. Long black T-shirt dragged waterlogged toward soft pale knees. Already in her swimsuit, she’d driven for an hour to find a …

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Cart with Axe near wood
Arts & Culture / December 2015

Enough with Scandinavia Chic

November 18, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Peter Kavanagh

What’s so great about IKEA anyway?

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