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April 2016

Katherine Laidlaw profiles the world’s greatest ice climber; Tyler Anderson photographs the modern fur trade; Nancy Westaway confronts her husband’s digital ghosts; Simon Lewsen follows the playwright blowing up Canadian theatre; Calum Marsh investigates gentrification and the legal rights of pigeons; Harley Rustad reports on the election for Tibet’s government in exile…

Photograph by Jeremy Fokkens
April 2016 / Feature

This Will End Well

April 21, 2016March 31, 2020 - by Katherine Laidlaw

Our greatest daredevil stares down middle age

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Man being wheeled past chalkboard
April 2016 / Feature

The Retail Scam Known As the Modern University

April 18, 2016March 31, 2020 - by Ron Srigley

Why your degree may not be worth the paper it’s printed on

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Photograph by Tyler Anderson
April 2016 / Photography

Canada’s Oldest Profession

March 24, 2016July 1, 2016 - by Tyler Anderson

The fur trade—then and now

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Illustration by Lisa Vanin
April 2016 / Fiction

Hackles

March 23, 2016August 8, 2020 - by Jay Hosking

My memories of that summer revolve around Jamie Crowell’s dogs, Mort and Julie. Mort was some sort of mastiff-Rottweiler cross, enormous black head, jowls and slobber and sagging skin, each …

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Illustration by Katty Maurey
April 2016 / Education

School of Unexplained Knocks

March 23, 2016March 31, 2020 - by Audra Williams

Life advice from a professional ghostbuster

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Photograph by Callan Field
April 2016 / Theatre

Play Fighting

March 22, 2016April 6, 2017 - by Simon Lewsen

Jordan Tannahill is blowing up the Canadian stage

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Illustration by Katty Maurey
April 2016 / Poetry

Manchester to Lisbon

March 22, 2016March 14, 2016 - by Megan Fernandes

In seat 15B, she is beginning to pray in Portuguese. Her small hands fold over a bright-pink gossip magazine with imperfect bubbles: cellulite, hair weaves, and something about Mrs. Clooney. …

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Illustration by Katty Maurey
April 2016 / Politics

Mock Parliament

March 17, 2016March 31, 2020 - by Harley Rustad

Voting from afar for Tibet’s unrecognized government

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Illustration by Katty Maurey
April 2016 / Cities

A Roost of One’s Own

March 16, 2016July 16, 2020 - by Calum Marsh

Gentrification and the legal rights of pigeons

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Illustration by Marian Bantjes
April 2016 / First Person

Audience of One

March 15, 2016March 31, 2020 - by Robert de Boyrie

A schizophrenic man silences the voices in his head

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