Dissolving the Dead
An Ontario entrepreneur really wants to send your body down the drain
Read MoreMarch 2016
Graeme Bayliss uncovers Canada’s bio-cremation industry; Linda Besner on the fight to preserve the Cree language; Don Gillmor remembers the tormented life of his poet friend; Eva Holland takes us to Canada’s northernmost golf course; Michael Lapointe reviews Yann Martel’s new novel; Kamal Al-Solaylee reveals the struggles for refugees once they arrive in Canada…
In Their Own Words
The fight to preserve the Cree language
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“You Are Not Going to Come Trillium”
But I do come to Trillium. To the Cardiac Short Stay Unit where you’ve been sent for the second stent, where free sanitizer prevents the spread of panic. We laugh. …
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Canadian Identity—in Sixty Seconds or Less
The producers of Heritage Minutes show us how history is made
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Even Cooler than Dinosaurs
Forget Tyrannosaurus rex. The future belongs to creatures with a more ancient pedigree
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Sick Soldiers
A veteran with PTSD describes war’s invisible wounds
Read More Third State
When the school burned, our ghosts were released. For years we’d only seen well-meaning psychics who entered the classroom to light sage and lay cards, while our ghosts looked on …
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Where the Yazoo Cross the Yellow Dog
Jimbo Palmer and Rob Forde were both fourteen, with Jimbo some months older than Rob. Jimbo’s mother was warm and friendly but ineffectual. She remonstrated by saying in a trailing-off …
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A Poet Self-Destructs
The tormented life of my friend Murdoch Burnett
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