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April 2010 / Poetry

I Am Happy to Live in an Age of Plenty

April 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Paul Vermeersch

There are more non-prescription painkillers now than when most of us had jobs that were strenuous or fatal. Our muscles tightened and frayed like ropes that hoist pianos; our knuckles …

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Photograph by Eurithe Purdy
April 2010 / Books

Al and Me

April 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by George Bowering

Remembering Canada’s most famous poet ten years after his death

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A girl standing beneath a tree holding a nest with three blue eggs still inside. The image is stitched as if into a quilt.
April 2010

The Human Egg Trade

April 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Alison Motluk

How Canada’s fertility laws are failing donors, doctors, and parents

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March 2010 / Society

Editor’s Note

March 25, 2010April 15, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

Michael Ignatieff begins his recent memoir with a meditation on citizenship in which he writes that the true patriot is obliged to acknowledge “the dark with the light.” It is …

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March 2010

Torch to Bear

March 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Jason Sherman
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March 2010 / Poetry

For the Fighter Pilot Made Redundant by Unmanned Drones

March 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Jesse Patrick Ferguson

Fatigued, he bides there, glum, in the desert Tim Hortons simulacrum, that mirage of home dragged out the tail end of a C130 Hercules and opened for business. In his …

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March 2010

A Tale of Two Cities

March 12, 2010July 27, 2020 - by Gary Stephen Ross

The Vancouver you see, and the one you don’t

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March 2010

Real Magic

March 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Robert Fulford

At a special weight loss program for men, the author discovers that the only way to stop overeating is to start believing

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Fiction / March 2010

Paul Farenbacher’s Yard Sale

March 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Sarah Selecky

Paul Farenbacher always told me, Never call yourself a salesperson. What you do isn’t sales, he’d say. You aren’t in sales. What you are doing is providing people with an …

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March 2010

Three Meals in Afghanistan

March 12, 2010June 15, 2020 - by Naheed Mustafa

In cities and villages alike, a country seeking change clings tightly to its past

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