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Illustration by Takashi Okamoto; photograph courtesy of Xujun Eberlein
July/August 2006 / Memoir

Swimming with Mao

July 12, 2006May 28, 2020 - by Xujun Eberlein

Survival and family

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Illustration by Takashi Okamoto; photograph by Natalie Matutschovsky
July/August 2006 / Memoir

My Life with Tolstoy

July 12, 2006July 4, 2021 - by David Gilmour

Like the acting of Christopher Walken or the movies of Eric Rohmer, Tolstoy’s magnum opus is a magnet for foolish opinions

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July/August 2006 / Politics

A Family Affair

July 12, 2006July 16, 2019 - by Ken Alexander

For columnist Andrew Coyne, a telltale line in last spring’s budget was the promise to improve the tax treatment of capital gains for fishers; for Jeffrey Simpson it was the …

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Fiction / July/August 2006

Its a Smallwood, After All

July 12, 2006July 4, 2021 - by Wayne Johnston

One of the advantages of being immortal is that you eventually make—and make up for—every possible mistake

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July/August 2006

My Doomed Voyage

July 12, 2006July 4, 2021 - by Helen Humphreys

The lecture ended with a sloppy rendition of the Stan Rogers song about Franklin

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Photo by Peter Bryenton
July/August 2006

Driving Lessons

July 12, 2006July 4, 2021 - by Joseph Boyden

The little thing is long and skinny. Its blue in the harsh morning light

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July/August 2006

Eclipsed

July 12, 2006July 4, 2021 - by Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean’s hard-earned Diamond Ring

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June 2006

The American Gigantic

June 12, 2006May 29, 2020 - by Mark Kingwell

Has the dream of freedom and opportunity declined into a hopeless pathology?

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Illutration by Fiona Smyth
June 2006

Nicaragua’s Crazy Sickness

June 12, 2006April 14, 2020 - by Nicola Ross

An indigenous community grapples with a mysterious ailment

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Fiction / June 2006

What He Saw

June 12, 2006October 16, 2019 - by Michael Winter

Photograph by Amanda Tetrault Be that way then, she said. And wished she hadn’t. She touched the straps of her bikini and walked down to the sea. She preferred diving …

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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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