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December 2016

Jessica Johnson shows how Canada is finally cool; Lauren McKeon introduces the women who hate feminism; Deni Ellis Béchard on how Jack Kerouac’s French-Canadian roots hold the key to his literary identity; Molly Hays makes the case for prison farms; Gerry Bowler reveals the dark history of Christmas…

Illustration by Maurice Vellekoop
Books / December 2016

Cleaning Up Christmas

December 1, 2016December 24, 2020 - by Gerry Bowler

It wasn’t always ho-ho-ho

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Illustration by Josh Holinaty
December 2016 / Justice

Crops and Robbers

November 25, 2016November 19, 2019 - by Molly Hayes

How prison farms can help fill employment gaps and rehabilitate inmates

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Illustration by Pascal Colpron
December 2016 / Memoir

Geek Love

November 24, 2016April 2, 2020 - by Kevin Patterson

Growing up gay was tough for my twin brother. Dungeons & Dragons made life easier

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Business / December 2016 / The O'Hagan Essay on Public Affairs

Solving Canada’s Innovation Problem

November 23, 2016December 8, 2020 - by Andrea Mandel-Campbell

Why do we export so many world-class business ideas to the rest of the world?

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Illustration by Talulah Fontaine
December 2016 / Health

No Vacancy

November 23, 2016October 6, 2020 - by Sarah Trick

For the disabled, finding a place to live often takes years

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Illustration by Janice Wu
Business / December 2016

Bitcoin for Bohemians

November 21, 2016April 2, 2020 - by Harley Rustad

Salt Spring Island, BC, prints its own money—and is an ideal site for a local currency experiment

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Illustration by Jason Logan
December 2016 / Poetry

The New Colonialism

November 21, 2016November 21, 2016 - by Jenny Haysom

Legend has it that Jimi Hendrix released a mating pair, an Adam and Eve, from the balcony of his Carnaby Street apartment in the ’60s. Others claim they flew the …

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December 2016 / Fiction

A System from the North

November 18, 2016April 2, 2020 - by Alix Ohlin

For losing a child, she knew she would be fired. She had plenty of experience with fireable offences

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Illustration by Hayden Maynard
December 2016 / Society

Shame on Parent Shaming

November 17, 2016April 2, 2020 - by Bruce Grierson

The risk of a stranger abducting your child is driven by fear not logic

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Illustration by Iveta Karpathyova
Books / December 2016

On le Road

November 17, 2016June 24, 2020 - by Deni Ellis Béchard

Kerouac’s French-Canadian roots hold the key to his literary identity

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