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Fiction / November 2011

This Cake Is for the Party

November 12, 2011November 19, 2020 - by Sarah Selecky

It’s cooling on a rack on the kitchen counter. David is on the couch, cleaning under his fingernails with a corner of his Safeway card, and I’m in the kitchen, …

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Photograph by AISA Media/ Mary Evans Picture Gallery
Environment / November 2011

As the Crow Flies

November 12, 2011July 4, 2022 - by Lisa Gregoire

Crows are harbingers of doom, urban pests—and a little too human

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Illustration by Luc Melanson
Justice / November 2011

Code of Silence

November 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Candice Vallantin

An academic book, a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, and a question: is Canadian law failing free speech?

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Photograph by Jane Gray Morrison/ Dancing Star Foundation
Environment / November 2011

Primate Directive

November 12, 2011July 17, 2019 - by Erin Millar

Biruté Galdikas, the world’s leading orangutan expert and a one-time helicopter mom, struggles to let go

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Photograph by John Hallberg-Campbell
November 2011 / Society

The Best Medicine

November 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Kaitlin Fontana

Toward a better world, a Vancouver stand-up teaches NGOs how to be funny

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Photograph by Jody Rogac
Education / November 2011

The Observer, Observed

November 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Daniel Baird

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik is an aesthete of the ordinary, and this year’s Massey lecturer

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October 2011

Editor’s Note

October 19, 2011April 13, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

In September 1991, while working for CTV News, I found myself in Moscow shortly after the failed coup d’état that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It was …

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Be It Resolved That Toronto Will Never Be Beautiful

October 12, 2011March 8, 2019 - by The Walrus Foundation

The Walrus Toronto Project Debate at the AGO

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October 2011 / Technology

Food for Thought

October 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Craille Maguire Gillies

Mirko Betti, university researcher and self-made philosopher, represents the vanguard of a brand new technology: in vitro meat

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Photograph by Alana Riley
October 2011

Disturbing Content

October 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Alexandra Molotkow

Montreal FX artist Rémy Couture may face imprisonment for gory images he disseminated on his website. In horror terms, he’s made it

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Forget the bots and billionaires.
This election season, we’re bringing you nothing but trusted, independent journalism.

On U.S. election night, I stayed up late with the TV playing and the New York Times Presidential Election page open on my laptop, refreshing constantly for the ballot counts. Odds are, you were glued to the updates too. You know what happened: the stunning comeback of Donald Trump, a convicted felon who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

What made this political season especially exhausting, aside from Trump’s incendiary rhetoric, was the tidal wave of misinformation. As we brace for Canada’s own national election, the need for reliable information is more urgent than ever. If you want a fearlessly independent media source you can trust amidst the bots and billionaires with agendas, you’ve come to the right place.

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