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Fiction / July/August 2011

Madame Poirer’s Dog

July 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Kathleen Winter

When Doctor Gisele came this morning to assess me again, she asked me to name an animal that has four legs. I told her a snake. Honestly. Why does Residence …

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July/August 2011 / Poetry

The Scarborough Bluffs

July 12, 2011July 20, 2017 - by Michael Lista

You will not find me among the women of the earth, Their hair wound up in buns upon their heads, And goosebumped legs bridged above the bath— I am not …

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Photograph by Gaël Turine
July/August 2011 / Sports

The Pain Principle

July 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Richard Poplak

Cyclist Ryder Hesjedal is one of the best athletes in Canada. Can he suffer enough to become the best in the world?

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July/August 2011 / World

Exorcism at Ground Zero

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In New York, young Americans celebrate the end of a ten-year nightmare

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Tangled Web

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How bad metaphors are hiking up your Internet bill

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July/August 2011

Regal Steps

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Inside the English country dance scene, where the most intimate contact occurs between the eyes

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July/August 2011

The Stag

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A former sex worker recounts a harrowing night in Abbotsford, BC, circa 1980

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Divine Inspiration

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How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and finest thinkers

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Books / July/August 2011

Brother Grim

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In his new young adult novel, Idaho Winter, Tony Burgess unleashes his trademark gore and gross-out humour on the kids

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Junior Boys are reinventing synth-pop for the digital age

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