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January/February 2017

Nadim Roberts profiles the Calgary imam who saves Muslim men from radicalization; Danielle Groen examines why there are so few female conductors; Melvyn Green uncovers the roots of our racist war on drugs; Stephen Marche positions Canada in the age of Trump; Pico Iyer reflects on Leonard Cohen…

Illustration by Sam Island
January/February 2017

The First Lady of Reefer Madness

December 22, 2016April 7, 2020 - by Melvyn Green

How a renowned Canadian feminist popularized our racist war on drugs

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Illustration by Niall McClelland
January/February 2017 / Justice

To Live and Die in Solitary Confinement

December 21, 2016April 2, 2020 - by Breese Davies

In Canada’s prisons, the horrors of segregation are most often visited on the mentally ill

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Illustration by Jason Logan
January/February 2017 / Poetry

I Open the Dryer and a Robin Sails Out

December 20, 2016April 7, 2020 - by Adèle Barclay

Winner of the 2016 Walrus Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award You are driving a bus across Alberta, deciding between seasons, plucking aphids and roses. Over mountains I feel the peak …

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Illustration by Jason Logan
January/February 2017 / Poetry

Colloquium: J.T. Henry and Lady Simcoe on Early Ontario Petrocolonialism

December 20, 2016April 26, 2017 - by David Huebert

Winner of the 2016 Walrus Poetry Prize Mrs. Hamilton drank tea with me. Mrs. McGill, wife of the commissary, Capt. John McGill, and Miss Crookshank, her sister, are pleasant women …

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conductor waving her baton
January/February 2017

Why Are There so Few Female Conductors?

December 19, 2016April 7, 2020 - by Danielle Groen

For women, the symphony is not so different from the boardroom

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Illustration by Kenny Park
Fiction / January/February 2017

An Occurrence on the Beach at Varosha

December 16, 2016April 7, 2020 - by Steven Heighton

The evening’s last light has drained out of the sky behind the procession of dead hotels lining the beach. Up to twenty storeys high, they were built so close together …

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Illustration by Jason Logan
January/February 2017 / Memoir

Guilty Memories from an Anglo Montreal Childhood

December 15, 2016April 2, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

Like many English speakers growing up in Quebec, I saw myself as a victim. But within our own enclaves, we often acted like bigots

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A photo of Calgary imam Navaid Aziz
January/February 2017

The Imam Who Saves Muslim Men From Radicalization

December 14, 2016April 2, 2020 - by Nadim Roberts

When Navaid Aziz realized his mosque in Calgary had a problem with jihadists, he stepped up

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Photograph by Guillaume Simoneau
Books / January/February 2017

Heather O’Neill at the Height of Her Literary Powers

December 13, 2016April 2, 2020 - by André Forget

Does The Lonely Hearts Hotel mark the beginning of her second act?

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Illustration by Tara Lilly
January/February 2017 / Science

The Race to Create Chocolate That Only Melts in Your Mouth

December 12, 2016April 2, 2020 - by Nicole Schmidt

On the front lines of the battle between Hershey and Mars

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