WE HAVE MANY CUSTOMS to honour a death. But as Nicholas Cameron finds in our cover story, rituals fall short when it comes to helping those who have survived. Speaking with HIV/AIDS and cancer patients, Cameron investigates how people are finding strength on the shadow side of survival.

Fraser Los  on the Haida Nation vs. Northern Gateway.

Scaachi Koul investigates Nenshi's effect on Calgary's racial climate.

Marianne Ackerman asks how history will remember Pauline Marois.

Julia Zarankin on bird watching's new class.

Why does Shane Neilson like poetry more when he can't understand it?

Erica Lenti on men in women's studies. 

Shannon Tien reviews Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven.

Lindsay Tapscott  recalls her carnal history of Quebec. 

PLUS new fiction from Naben Ruthnum, a photo essay from John Zada, poetry from David James Brock, Writing from Quebec, reviews of Women in Clothes, the Rural Alberta Advantage's latest and more!

  On newsstands Sept. 12. Buy the issue here.