Fall Archive
by Katherine Laidlaw
Two years ago, an Ontario man was killed by a Siberian tiger—one he kept in his own yard. Nobody knows how many other deadly pets might be prowling Canada’s suburbs.
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by Sam Sutherland
In the summer of 1977, one makeshift, beer-soaked venue brought punk rock to Montreal. Then the mafia showed up.
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by Marie-Andrée Labbé
La belle province has its own humour industry of massive superstars and classic shows. Too bad the jokes are totally lame.
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by Andrew Stobo Sniderman
Five years ago, Justin Ferbey helped his Yukon community become one of Canada’s few self-governing First Nations. That was the easy part.
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by Jacob Wren
Is social networking truly “Orwellian”?
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by Carmelle Wolfson
There’s a massive park in the Occupied Territories, built on the ruins of destroyed villages—and it’s named after the Canadians who funded it.
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by Tristan LaPointe
The cartoonist on his new book, The Death-Ray, and getting in touch with his inner sixteen-year-old.
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by Justin Giovannetti
Do alternative weeklies have a future? Inside the recent upheaval at a Montreal media institution.
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by Kimberley Fu
Discussions of illness rely too much on metaphor. Why can’t we just say what we mean?
by Jason Guriel
At Poetry Idol, contemporary verse is very much alive—at least when it’s onstage.
by Pasha Malla
We all tell stories about other people. But is that impulse born of compassion or fear?
by Donald Weber
Fukushima after the nuclear disaster.
by Zoe Whittall
“Sometimes, Jim, I think you’ve never listened to a single thing I’ve ever said besides come on my tits.”
by Nyla Matuk
“Lust” and “Mating Ritual.”
by Chandler Levack
“You came to Montreal for what? Your own pleasure?” asks the nurse in strangled English.
by Maisonneuve Staff
Fall reads: Daniel Clowes, Adam Gopnik, Lynn Coady and more.
by Chandler Levack
Fall listens: Feist, St. Vincent, Drake, Extra Happy Ghost!!! and more.
ISSUE 43
Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012
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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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