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Health / March 2012

Editor’s Note

March 9, 2012April 13, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

When I was twenty years old, I thought that a person the age I am now (I’ll be seventy this month) was a fossil, but then in 1962 the life …

Society

Wings and Prayers

February 22, 2012October 9, 2019 - by Shelagh Rogers

Joseph Boyden, the Tragically Hip, and “guerrilla love” for the Great Moon Gathering

January/February 2012 / Media

Editor’s Note

January 17, 2012April 13, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

My guide in matters pertaining to journalism is A.J. Liebling who, from 1946 to 1963, wrote a column in The New Yorker called The Wayward Press. (He also wrote Between …

January/February 2012 / Poetry

The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness

January 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Damian Rogers

When he was thirty-eight years old, he found himself in a stranger’s basement confronted by a calendar that had stopped dead on the day he was born. He became the …

January/February 2012

Reign Maker

January 12, 2012January 22, 2021 - by Charlotte Gray

David Johnston, Canada’s twenty-eighth Governor General, possesses impeccable credentials and old-fashioned charm. Plus he is the government’s secret weapon in restoring the power of the monarchy

January/February 2012

The Invention of Waterloo

January 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

Canada’s Technology Triangle has spawned more than 450 high-tech companies, including BlackBerry pioneer Research in Motion. But it didn’t just happen: an upstart university had the brains to embrace mathematics

Fiction / January/February 2012

Corpse

January 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Contorted into downward dog, legs slightly bent, soles on the floor, Maura said, “You have to imagine it’s like a yoni—a great universal twat.” And then she added, “You know? ” …