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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by Eric Andrew-Gee
Gary Doer was hailed as one of Canada's greenest leaders. Then he became ambassador to the US—and started shilling for Alberta oil.
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by Christopher Szabla
Is the cult of remembrance holding us back? In an era of Google archives and tragedy tourism, we need to relearn how to forget.
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by Kasper Hartman
The first-place story from the 2011 Quebec Writing Competition.
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by Gary Leclerc
One of two second-place stories from the 2011 Quebec Writing Competition.
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by Tijana Stojković
One of two second-place stories from the 2011 Quebec Writing Competition.
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by Selena Ross
In this exclusive investigative report from Montreal, Maisonneuve exposes the bid-rigging, violence and sabotage at the heart of an unlikely racket: snow removal.
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by Andrea Bennett
The Jackson Avenue Housing Co-operative and the religious battle raging in one of Canada's poorest neighbourhoods.
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by Nick Taylor-Vaisey
Last May, Jack Layton led the NDP to the greatest victory in party history. Now that he's gone, will the party be able to maintain its momentum?
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