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March 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…

Illustration by James Walton
Cover Story / March 2016

Dissolving the Dead

March 26, 2016March 31, 2020 - by Graeme Bayliss

An Ontario entrepreneur really wants to send your body down the drain

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Illustration by Julie Flett
Feature / March 2016

In Their Own Words

March 25, 2016March 31, 2020 - by Linda Besner

The fight to preserve the Cree language

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Illustration by Brandon Celi
March 2016 / Poetry

“You Are Not Going to Come Trillium”

February 25, 2016April 26, 2017 - by Madhur Anand

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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Photograph courtesy of Historica Canada
March 2016 / Television

Canadian Identity—in Sixty Seconds or Less

February 24, 2016April 5, 2017 - by Anthony Wilson-Smith

The producers of Heritage Minutes show us how history is made

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Image courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum
March 2016 / Science

Even Cooler than Dinosaurs

February 24, 2016July 17, 2019 - by Jonathan Kay

Forget Tyrannosaurus rex. The future belongs to creatures with a more ancient pedigree

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Illustration by Daniel Zender
Health / March 2016

Sick Soldiers

February 23, 2016March 31, 2020 - by Fred Doucette

A veteran with PTSD describes war’s invisible wounds

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Illustration by Brandon Celi
March 2016 / Poetry

Third State

February 23, 2016June 2, 2016 - by Sara Peters

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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Illustration by Janice Wu
Fiction / March 2016

Where the Yazoo Cross the Yellow Dog

February 22, 2016March 31, 2020 - by John Metcalf

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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Photograph by Heather Elton
March 2016 / Memoir

A Poet Self-Destructs

February 19, 2016April 22, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

The tormented life of my friend Murdoch Burnett

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Illustration by Brandon Celi
March 2016 / Sports

Bear Club

February 18, 2016March 31, 2020 - by Eva Holland

Rogue wildlife is par for the course on Canada’s northernmost green

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