April 2017
Peter Norman joins conservative provocateur Ezra Levant and his Rebel army on a week-long cruise; Stephen Marche bears witness to Trump’s inauguration; Scaachi Koul describes her fitting-room nightmare; Katherine Laidlaw looks at changes in the way we think about menstruation; fiction by Lynn Crosbie…
Body of Work
In her new novel, Barbara Gowdy draws inspiration from private agonies
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What I Learned from a Fitting-Room Disaster about Clothes and Life
I still shop to save my soul, but I know now that what you wear is ephemeral—it’s insecurities that last a lifetime
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A High-Stakes Land-Use Battle at the Pristine Heart of the Yukon
The territory has been divided for years over mining and conservation. Now the Supreme Court will hear a case that will help determine the future of the Peel River watershed
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No Job, No Car, No Bank Account: What It’s like to Be Stateless in Canada
Residents who aren’t citizens of any country are trapped in a Catch-22 world
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My Encounter with the Crank Behind Donald Trump
I’d love to say I predicted Stephen Bannon’s rise to power. But the notion of a conspiracy theorist in the White House was beyond my imagination
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It Is I Who Styles Donald Trump
Last night I dreamt I went to Mar-a-Lago again. I stood, shuddering at the gates—was I to be the mistress of an estate named in colloquial Spanish? Then, like all …
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Period Drama
It’s time for us to treat menstruation less like a medical issue and more like a cultural one
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My Week at Sea with Canada’s Alt-Right
An undercover leftie cruises the Caribbean with Ezra Levant and his army of Trump supporters, conspiracy theorists, and Islamophobes
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A Dead Whale and the Politics of Climate Change
A museum struggles to tell the story of a species nearing extinction
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