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December 2017

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December 2017 / Poetry

Animal Is My Inner Animal

March 29, 2019November 14, 2019 - by George Murray

Look past the wild red hair, gripped sticks, and teeth gnashing; past the twin shows of chasing skirts and anger

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December 2017 / Fiction

The Queen of Zilch

December 30, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Geneviève Pettersen

My dad had come downstairs that morning to warn me not to wear anything crazy at the party or do my face up like a drag queen

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Books / December 2017

Will a Posthumous Story Collection Help Canada Forgive Norman Levine?

November 22, 2017April 2, 2020 - by André Forget

After his unsparing portrait of the country in his 1950s travelogue, he was shunned by the literary elite

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Woman holding stuffed animal sits in her home
December 2017 / Language

How One Translator Brought Quebec’s Greatest Authors to English Canada

November 21, 2017December 3, 2019 - by Derek Webster

For Sheila Fischman, translation represents the hope that our country’s fractured identity can be healed by understanding how others see the world

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Books / December 2017

How Margaret Atwood Learned to Type

November 20, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Margaret Atwood

At sixteen, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale sat down with her parents’ portable Remington for the first time

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Arts & Culture / December 2017

The Age of Creativity

November 17, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Emily Urquhart

My father is a remarkable painter. And he’s done some of his best work in his eighties

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Business / December 2017

Can Wealthsimple Teach Millennials How Not to Be Broke?

November 15, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Jessica Johnson

Its minimal branding and user-friendly platform replicates the big bank services—without the human contact

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self-driving truck prototype parked on the side of the road
Cover Story / December 2017

Rise of the Robots

November 14, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Sharon J. Riley

Automated trucks will transform an industry and put millions out of work

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