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June 2016

Jonathan Kay examines why Big Brother is bad for business in Silicon Valley; Jana G. Pruden investigates what happened to Tamra Keepness; Bob Rae considers Britain’s EU exit; Katherine Laidlaw tells the stories of women confronting the difference between justice and the law; Simon Lewsen goes backstage of Le Petit Prince; Zoe Tennant explores bannock’s contentious place in Aboriginal cuisine…

Photograph by Aleksandar Antonijevic
Feature / June 2016

Pulling Strings

June 26, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Simon Lewsen

The mechanics of bringing Le Petit Prince to the stage

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Illustration by Ben Clarkson
Feature / June 2016 / The Walrus True Crime

What Happened the Night Tamra Keepness Disappeared From Her Regina Home?

June 24, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Jana G. Pruden

The years since her disappearance have exposed the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada

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Illustration by Byron Eggenschwiler
Feature / June 2016

No One Is Watching You

June 18, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

Silicon Valley learns that playing Big Brother is bad for business

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Illustrations by Hudson Christie
June 2016 / Technology

Hippie Capitalism

May 25, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

My Airbnb stay ended with an awkward hug

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Illustrations by Hudson Christie
June 2016 / Society

Fighting Montreal’s Pinball Prohibition

May 25, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Anna Fitzpatrick

Why bars that serve alcohol can’t have pinball machines

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Illustration by Justine Wong
June 2016 / Society

Does Bannock Have a Place in Indigenous Cuisine?

May 20, 2016June 10, 2020 - by Zoe Heaps Tennant

Though it’s typically considered traditional food, its origins are more complicated

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Illustration by Kinomi
Fiction / June 2016

The Rainbow Festival

May 19, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Sean Michaels

Every year, my mother transformed our home into an inn. The parlour became the gentlemen’s lounge, the dining room became the breakfast nook, and most of the other rooms were turned into guest bedrooms

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Illustrations by Hudson Christie
June 2016 / Poetry

As Conducted by Seiji Ozawa

May 19, 2016May 20, 2016 - by Jim Johnstone

Eight p.m. and an extended vowel sounds from the pit, instruments braying, sustaining the nasal pitch of the audience. When Massey Hall quiets, a spotlight sets beyond its seats, and …

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Illustrations by Hudson Christie
Cities / June 2016

The Philippine Connection

May 18, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Genesee Keevil

How one woman turned Whitehorse into a promised land

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Illustrations by Hudson Christie
June 2016 / Politics

Goodbye to All That?

May 17, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Bob Rae

What Britain’s EU exit would mean for Canada

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