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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…

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April 2017 / Letters

Letters

March 28, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Readers

borderline facts I found Stephen Marche’s article (“Canada in the Age of Donald Trump,” January/February), which described Canada as “the last country on Earth to believe in multiculturalism,” to be …

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Photograph by Ruth Kaplan
April 2017 / Books

Body of Work

March 27, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Melanie Little

In her new novel, Barbara Gowdy draws inspiration from private agonies

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Illustration by Lauren Tamaki
April 2017

What I Learned from a Fitting-Room Disaster about Clothes and Life

March 24, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Scaachi Koul

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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Photo by Peter Mather
April 2017 / Environment

A High-Stakes Land-Use Battle at the Pristine Heart of the Yukon

March 21, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Rhiannon Russell

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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Illustration by Adrian Forrow
April 2017 / Justice

No Job, No Car, No Bank Account: What It’s like to Be Stateless in Canada

March 20, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Tori Marlan

Residents who aren’t citizens of any country are trapped in a Catch-22 world

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Illustration by Jason Logan
April 2017 / Politics

My Encounter with the Crank Behind Donald Trump

March 17, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

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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Illustration by Roxanna Bikadoroff
April 2017 / Fiction

It Is I Who Styles Donald Trump

March 17, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Lynn Crosbie

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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Illustration by Leeay Aikawa
April 2017 / Business

Period Drama

March 14, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Katherine Laidlaw

It’s time for us to treat menstruation less like a medical issue and more like a cultural one

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An illustration of Ezra Levant on the prow of a cruise ship.
April 2017

My Week at Sea with Canada’s Alt-Right

March 10, 2017April 21, 2022 - by Peter Norman

An undercover leftie cruises the Caribbean with Ezra Levant and his army of Trump supporters, conspiracy theorists, and Islamophobes

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Photograph by Jacqueline Waters, Royal Ontario Museum
April 2017 / Science

A Dead Whale and the Politics of Climate Change

March 9, 2017April 20, 2020 - by Simon Lewsen

A museum struggles to tell the story of a species nearing extinction

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