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Illustration by Tamara Shopsin and Jason Fulford

January/February 2015

Playing Chicken

January 16, 2015November 11, 2021 - by Sasha Chapman

Antibiotics made modern farming possible. By abusing them, we risk everything

A child's silhouette, composed of small red dots that resemble measles or chicken pox, walks through an empty neighbourhood trailing germs.

November 2014

How the Anti-Vax Movement Harms Us All

November 27, 2014March 3, 2022 - by Jasmine Budak

Why measles made a comeback in a country with high immunization rates

Poetry

Ventriloquism for Dummies

October 26, 2014April 26, 2017 - by Michael Prior

Winner of the 2014 Walrus Poetry Prize Pine plosives, alveolar carpentry: my life, lived like an elaborate glove. Tilt my head, a pale seashell scribed by lathe, and listen to …

Man wearing apron outside of a burger shop

October 2014

Reviving Riversdale

October 22, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Allan Casey

Gentrification and reconciliation in one of Saskatoon’s poorest neighbourhoods

September 2014

If We Build It, They Will Stay

September 8, 2014April 13, 2020 - by John van Nostrand

Instead of extracting resources and leaving, we could populate the mid-Canada corridor—and create a bigger, better country

Fiction / July/August 2014

Ultrasound

July 21, 2014November 22, 2022 - by Stephen Marche

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 representing “of no interest to me” and 10 representing “of maximum interest to me,” the rapes in my neighbourhood rated a …