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July/August 2016

Don Gillmor examines how we can be saved from traffic ruining our lives; Laura Trethewey visits British Columbia’s last houseboat squatters as they face eviction; David Macfarlane investigates how the Battle of the Somme still resonates in Newfoundland; Michael Lista takes on cowardly critics; Graeme Bayliss argues the mentally ill deserve the right to die; new fiction by Mona Awad, David Bergen, and Lisa Moore…

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July/August 2016

War Wounds

July 22, 2016November 11, 2019 - by David Macfarlane

A century later, the Battle of the Somme still resonates in Newfoundland

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Illustration by Michael Byers
July/August 2016

Stuck

July 20, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

Traffic is ruining our lives—but we can be saved

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Photography by Chloë Ellingson
July/August 2016

Float Free or Die

July 16, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Laura Trethewey

British Columbia’s last houseboat squatters fight eviction

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Illustration by Adrian Forrow
July/August 2016 / Poetry

San Pellegrino

July 8, 2016November 1, 2021 - by Carmine Starnino

After an all-nighter, he’d stagger out to the kitchen counter, / full of odour, having slept in his clothes for good measure

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Illustration by Josh Holinaty
Books / July/August 2016

Working-Class Hero

June 23, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Naben Ruthnum

Horror made Stephen King rich. Writing about the poor makes him great

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Illustration by Irma Kniivila
July/August 2016

Bridgespotting

June 21, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Angela Mombourquette

Halifax’s Big Lift becomes an unlikely tourist attraction

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An illustration of a woman laying in bed looking at a poster
Fiction / July/August 2016

Bye Judy and Good Luck

June 21, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Mona Awad

Judy shakes her head sadly. She winces as if even that hurts. Then she tells us how she got so drunk last night that she decided she’d try to get her dog and cat to make friends

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Illustration by Mügluck
July/August 2016 / Poetry

Life Cycle of the Animal Called She

June 21, 2016September 4, 2020 - by Liz Howard

Wife Mother Mistress I made a line without continuation. My name in red Letters along the belly of this curve. How to cure him Of the colic, the bed wet, …

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Illustration by Irma Kniivila
July/August 2016 / Technology

The Burden of Digital Existence

June 20, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

How Sartre and Beauvoir inspired me to turn off my smartphone

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Illustration by Lauren Tamaki
July/August 2016

Map Quest

June 17, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Pasha Malla

Getting lost on the California coast, with the help of a TripTik

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