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September 2016

Thomas Hall examines why our Olympic strategy betrays the spirit of the Games; Brett Popplewell visits the biggest grow op in the world to see how an Ontario company is turning Canada into a marijuana superpower; Margaret Atwood reimagines the everyday feline as a comic-book superhero; Simon Lewsen investigates the Windsor hum…

Illustration by Jason Logan
Poetry / September 2016

Colour

August 25, 2016April 26, 2017 - by Mark Truscott

The time it takes the i to enter is is the time it takes two ideas to relate is the time it takes the sun to rise to where it …

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Illustration by Johnnie Christmas; Colours by Tamra Bonvillain
Comics / September 2016

Rescue Cat

August 24, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood reimagines the everyday feline as a comic-book superhero

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Illustration by Tine Modeweg-Hansen
Arts & Culture / September 2016

Highbrow Hoarder

August 24, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Douglas Coupland

The fine line between art collector and pack rat

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Illustration by Sam Island
Justice / September 2016

Going Broke in Legal Aid

August 23, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Breese Davies

The high cost of cheap justice

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Illustration by Sauchie Reid
September 2016 / Society

Forever Soldiers

August 22, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Matt Gurney

Coming home from the battlefield is hard—maybe some veterans shouldn’t

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Illustration by Jason Logan
Politics / September 2016

The Better Angels

August 19, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Jonathan Kay

What government wouldn’t spend $53,000 to prevent a sex crime?

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Illustration by Irma Kniivila
Fiction / September 2016

Three Tshakapesh Dreams

August 19, 2016May 22, 2020 - by Samuel Archibald

1. Yeah, I remember the story, even if I don’t get to tell it very often. It happened after the war. They found the kid in the Frontenac Library toilets …

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Photograph by Richmond Lam
Cannabis / September 2016

The Big Smoke

August 18, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Brett Popplewell

Inside the Ontario company that is set to turn Canada into a marijuana superpower

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Illustration by Jason Logan
Poetry / September 2016

Trigger warning for a course in developmental psychology

August 17, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Stevie Howell

Prediction is not only possible, it’s paramount. Milestones make us human. Upright, time-bound. Or is that poetry, or is that music. Or is that sports, or breweries. Or pharmaceuticals, or …

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Illustration by Katie Turner
Arts & Culture / September 2016

The Ghomeshi Effect

August 17, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Jessica Johnson

Finally we’re talking about sexual assault. When does the pain stop?

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