Double lives Archive
by Christopher Frey
In 1961, an unassuming young Canadian filmmaker single-handedly ignited an era of radical filmmaking.
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by "Kate Jackson"
What happens when a scholarship student at a top Canadian journalism school fabricates close to a dozen stories? Nothing, apparently.
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by Abou Farman
In this memoir of 1970s Tehran, Abou Farman recalls John Wayne, Cowboy Bazi and the “genius of dub” that remade the West in Iran’s image.
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by Asa Boxer
The Israeli Defence Forces is one of the toughest armies in the world. As a young man, Canadian writer Asa Boxer moved to Israel and was drafted, only to confront the true meaning of patriotism and sacrifice.
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by Meredith Erickson
Alana Riley’s wistful diptychs
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by Anita Lahey
“Dear my Cancer, I know you are trying to put a damper on my wonderful life, but it’s not going to work. You might as well quit now.” It didn’t.
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by Duncan McDowall
Get out of the traffic and into the ring. Duncan McDowall explains how affluent Californians are trading in their surfboards and running shoes for estoques and mulettas
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by Paul Winner
A look at the New Jersey band’s most recent release
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by Claire Crighton
An American poet and a St. Petersburg native may be the great Russian writer’s ideal translators
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by Kevin Chong
There are good videos, bad videos and “good-bad” videos, says Kevin Chong. Enter the online fan-tribute—the Internet’s answer to the love letter
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by Jonathan Montpetit
Are we helpless in the face of the lone gunman?
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by Pierre Nepveu
The never-before translated diary of poet Gaston Miron
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by Shannon Quinn
Demure university student by day, stripper at a notorious Edmonton club by night, Shannon Quinn led a double life. Here she recalls her last night on the job.
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by Taiaiake
Is the white man causing you stress? Are you stressed out about being white? I wanna help you people deal with it “in a good way.”
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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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