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January/February 2016

Shelley Youngblut on her gambling father; Stephen Marche writes a story of zoophilia; Matthew McKinnon examines drug legalization; John Lorinc explains how we’re all investing in sin stocks; Mark Kingwell on assholes; Natalie Zina Walschots describes her job in porn writing…

Illustration by Raymond Biesinger
January/February 2016

The Root of All Evil

January 21, 2016November 18, 2019 - by John Lorinc

Like it or not, you’re investing in sin stocks

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Group playing cars around a table
January/February 2016 / Memoir

House of Cards

December 22, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Shelley Youngblut

Looking for a father in the one place I swore I’d never go

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red cat looking at its own shadow
Health / January/February 2016

The Last House before the Bridge

December 22, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

What addicts need most

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FIngers squeezing person in hospital bed
Arts & Culture / January/February 2016

The League of Extraordinary Assholes

December 21, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Mark Kingwell

There’s a jerk in every room. Is it you?

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Illustration by Studio Tipi
January/February 2016 / Society

Luck of the Draw

December 18, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Philip Moscovitch

Lottery greed invades small-town Nova Scotia

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Illustration by Studio Tipi
January/February 2016 / Politics

Free-for-All

December 17, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Matthew McKinnon

Trudeau wants to legalize pot. Why stop there?

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Prison walls and guard tower
January/February 2016 / Memoir

Exit Wounds

December 17, 2015February 5, 2020 - by Edward Hertrich

A murderer tries to stay alive in Canada’s most notorious prison

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Illustration by Adrienne Kammerer
Fiction / January/February 2016

The Shomer and the Boreal Owl

December 16, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Stephen Marche

Ephraim kobre realized that he wanted to fuck wild things at the age of forty-two. Out for a stroll one evening in late August, he spotted a white-tailed fawn nibbling …

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Illustration by Studio Tipi
January/February 2016 / Poetry

Brilliant Disguise

December 16, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Kevin Connolly

Touch a word and a world comes out. Fire. Its captions, details. Fired clouds churning through a day. Do you have any clue how many moons Saturn has? I’ll read …

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Illustration by Studio Tipi
January/February 2016 / Poetry

The Jailor

December 16, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Sina Queyras

Decency is a hopeless weapon. Daily I fall from grace, The big splash, whatever. I should have been a starlet, I should Have had chairs pulled out for me, swirling …

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