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July/August 2018

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July/August 2018 / Poetry

Why I Wrote a Poem Imagining Donald Trump’s Attempted Assassination

July 30, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Steven Heighton

Listen to Steven Heighton read “Fake News,” in which an American bodyguard imagines taking a bullet for his president

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Arts & Culture / July/August 2018

How One First Nation Artist Makes Noise With Antlers and Amplifiers

July 25, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Erica Ngao

Jeneen Frei Njootli’s work explores her connection to the Yukon and the caribou that live there

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Fiction / July/August 2018

Upholstery

July 24, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Mireille Silcoff

Mrs. Naimer would swim the whole way across the lake and back, a feat everyone on the beach ignored on purpose

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A women sticking her face in a flower
Fiction / July/August 2018

The Second Coming of the Plants

July 20, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Zsuzsi Gartner

Hear the piercing chorus of the cacti, the beat boxing of the giant redwoods. This is our lullaby for you, sprouts, and only you

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The interior of bar raval in Toronto
Arts & Culture / July/August 2018

Who Says Canadian Architecture Is Boring?

July 19, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Simon Lewsen

From Toronto’s Union Station to saunas in cottage country, Partisans is reimagining design

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First Person / July/August 2018

How Humpty Dumpty Helped Me Teach English in Ethiopia

July 5, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Aida Edemariam

I turned to singing nursery rhymes to break the language barrier, and my own doubts

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Business / July/August 2018

Will Cryptocurrency Be Alberta’s Next Big Boom?

July 4, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Ethan Lou

Why I quit my day job to become a Bitcoin miner

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July/August 2018 / Society

Do Police Care As Much about Protecting the Public As They Do Themselves?

June 20, 2018October 20, 2020 - by Joshua Ostroff

To maintain public confidence, police associations may need to rethink how they handle criticism of their officers

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Man Removing grapes from trees
Current Affairs / July/August 2018

Eating Dinner With Canada’s Migrant Workers

June 12, 2018May 19, 2020 - by Corey Mintz

For the people who work our fields, food is both a livelihood and a way to stave off isolation

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Illustration by Mike Feehan
Environment / July/August 2018

Environmental Disaster Is Canada’s New Normal. Are We Ready?

May 23, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Anne Shibata Casselman

As parts of the country flood—again—an unprecedented audit reveals serious flaws in our climate change policy

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