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October 2016

Mary Rogan asks when do children know their true gender; Tom Jokinen discovers the world just can’t get enough of Canada’s bovine sperm; Harley Rustad reports on how a single tree, and the logger who saved it, have changed the way we see BC’s old-growth forests; Nicholas Hune-Brown examines if Kim’s Convenience can help fix TV’s diversity problem; Michael Kingston uncovers Roald Dahl’s secret history as a spy…

Illustration by Jason Logan
Media / October 2016

Avert Your Eyes

September 26, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

Life has never been safer—no matter what your smartphone tells you

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Illustration by Courtney Wotherspoon
Books / October 2016

Is Anne Carson the First Poet with More Fans than Readers?

September 23, 2016November 25, 2021 - by Michael Lista

Her abstruse, down-tuned music is the soundtrack to poetry’s institutionalized life in the twenty-first century

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Illustration by Joren Cull
October 2016

Canada’s Bull Semen Boom

September 22, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

We export more than $100 million worth of “white gold” per year—much of it from a handful of designer superstuds

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Photograph courtesy of the CBC
October 2016

Shop Talk

September 21, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Can Kim’s Convenience help fix TV’s diversity problem?

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Illustration by Sandi Falconer
October 2016

Once We Were Builders

September 20, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Peter Shawn Taylor

A bridge in limbo symbolizes our modern aversion to ambitious engineering projects

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October 2016

Big Lonely Doug

September 19, 2016June 30, 2022 - by Harley Rustad

How a single tree, and the logger who saved it, have changed the way we see British Columbia’s old-growth forests

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Illustration by Jason Logan
October 2016 / Poetry

Glinda the Good Is Gone

September 19, 2016September 19, 2016 - by Matthew Tierney

A crosswind, the Norway’s leaves flash like sunfish in a man-made pond. Still waiting for someone to ask whether I believe in God. Maple keys footnote the ground. As a …

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Illustration by Mark Cabuena
October 2016 / Sports

Small-Town Smackdown

September 16, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Philip Moscovitch

Why professional wrestling still has a chokehold on the East Coast

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Illustration by Jenn Kitagawa
Health / October 2016

Magic Mushrooms

September 15, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Sasha Chapin

Battling depression with hallucinogenic fungi

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Photograph by Martin Riese/Courtesy of Ponacoteca di Brere e Bibliotheca Nazionale Braidense
October 2016

Private Tour

September 14, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Jeannie Marshall

In Milan, museum director James Bradburne wants to reinvent the way we consume art

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