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Fiction / July/August 2020

Lottery Poetry

July 9, 2020July 10, 2020 - by Kevin Chong

No business felt more ridiculous, in those spring days of the pandemic, than fortune-telling did

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Society

My Son Peed Onscreen in a Zoom Call, and Other Tales of a Working Parent

July 7, 2020July 10, 2020 - by Mihira Lakshman

In a pandemic, our economy is sending a clear message: you can either work or parent

A man in a checkered shirt stands inside a large, barn-shaped building surrounded by chickens. He is holding a chicken in his hands and leaning towards it.

Health

A Warning from the Chickens of the World

July 6, 2020July 8, 2020 - by David Waltner-Toews

How our reliance on mass-produced food increases the risk of pandemics

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Arts & Culture / Books

How to Break Every Rule of Contemporary Writing and Succeed

July 2, 2020July 3, 2020 - by André Forget

Jean Marc Ah-Sen’s new book cracks open the tired tradition of the postmodern novel

Terra Cognita

June 29, 2020July 4, 2020 - by Robert Jago

The Indigenous stories we would rather be telling

Arts & Culture / Terra Cognita

Notes from an Apocalypse

June 29, 2020July 6, 2020 - by Chelsea Vowel

In Jeff Barnaby’s latest horror film, the zombies are colonizers and only we are immune

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Terra Cognita

Editor’s Letter

June 29, 2020July 2, 2020 - by Robert Jago

What would our stories look like if, just for a little while, we stopped telling them for other people and instead told them for ourselves?

Fiction / Terra Cognita

Bloodlines

June 29, 2020June 30, 2020 - by Erika T. Wurth

Sometimes a little vigilante justice is the sweetest revenge

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July/August 2020 / Society

Remembering the Air India Bombing

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 - by Jordan Michael Smith

Thirty-five years later, few Canadians seem to acknowledge the largest terrorist attack in their country’s history

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Business / COVID-19

Shopping Malls Might Not Be Coming Back

June 22, 2020June 24, 2020 - by Paul Gallant

The pandemic has set off a chain reaction of lost revenue that will shape the economy for years