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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

a series of several different tubes
Comics / December 2015

Our Ever-Changing Moods

November 18, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Jillian Tamaki

Connecting to (or disconnecting from) others, with clothes

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Photograph courtesy of the National Film Board
December 2015 / Film

The Original Reality Show

November 17, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Matthew Hays

Tanya Tree’s depiction of a poor Montreal family changed documentary filmmaking

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Drunk on oil book cover
December 2015 / Poetry

Gayatri

November 17, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Souvankham Thammavongsa

I have a picture of us when we are seven but we aren’t in it. At the time it was taken we thought we were. We posed with our wide …

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Illustration by Min Gyo Chung
December 2015 / Environment

Run, Forest, Run

November 16, 2015June 30, 2022 - by Asher Mullard

Helping trees flee climate change

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Drunk on oil book cover
December 2015 / Poetry

Julia Ward Howe Composes “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (1861)

November 16, 2015January 2, 2020 - by George Elliott Clarke

Untrammelled roads admit no unbridled horses: Violence outpaces prayer. Apple blossoms vanish violently: Beauty just gets blown away. Ideally, we plant trees, not corpses; prefer husbandry, then harvest. But, during …

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December 2015 / Memoir

Playing God

November 13, 2015April 29, 2020 - by Richard Kelly Kemick

I sold my wife’s clothes to build a Christmas village in my parents’ basement

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cutting electrical cord of light
December 2015 / Politics

Trudeau’s Morbid Duty

November 13, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

It’s been ten months since Carter v. Canada. So where’s our assisted suicide law?

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