Blueprint Archive
by Valerie Howes
How we came to put a mushroom cloud on the front of our magazine
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by Derek Webster
An introduction to the Blueprint issue
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by Deborah Ostrovsky
Deborah Ostrovsky introduces an excerpt from Rutu Modan’s gripping new graphic novel.
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by Nick Haramis
Short interviews with up-and-coming artists Mercedes Helnwein and Souther Salazar
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by Andrew Steinmetz
New to Thuder Bay, andrew Steinmetz finally has time to work on his novel. But first he needs to get buff.
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by Siobhan Roberts
Welcome to the Perimeter Institute where today’s Einsteins are hard at work.
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by John Symon
Why is Montreal one of the last bastions of unfluoridated drinking water in North America?
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by Alisa Slaughter
In Quartzsite, Arizona, people know how to make do. But are hardscrabble attitudes and religious values redundant in an age of the ready-made?
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by Meredith Erickson
Editor-at-large Meredith Erickson speaks with artist Melvin Charney about art, architecture and the “one size fits all” mentality governing life today.
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by Michel Dongois
They number ten million. They live in squalor. Will the Roma fare better in the new Europe?
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by Stephen Marche
An excerpt adapted from Stephen Marche’s brilliant fictional-anthology-as-novel, Shining at the Bottom of the Sea
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by Matthew Hays
Film Critic Matthew Hays looks at print media’s hidebound, prim, knee-jerk, paternalistic, unthinking, programmatic attitude towards the word “fuck.”
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by Dimitri Nasrallah
Winner of the Quebec Writing Competition, 2007: The Forested Knolls of Elbasan
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by Samer Elatrash
The Canadian military is visiting mosques to woo young Muslims. Not everyone is happy.
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ISSUE 43
Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012
online content:
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by Paul Gettlich
What really happened at Occupy Toronto?
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by Christopher Szabla
Occupy and the Arab Spring are often glowingly compared to the decentralized, democratic internet. But that very similarity may have doomed these movements from the beginning.
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by Maisonneuve Staff
A decade of Maisonneuve.
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by Tim Falconer
How can someone who passionately loves music also be a terrible singer? Tim Falconer takes up voice lessons—and discovers the surprising science of tone deafness.
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by Deni Y. Béchard
As a teenager, Deni Y. Béchard went to Vancouver to live with his father, an ex-con with a penchant for telling tall tales. He met a man desperate to forget the past.
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by Johanna Skibsrud
"She felt a great sadness. She would remember next to nothing of this, even soon."
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