Summer Archive
by Abou Farman
Odysseus, Don Quixote, modern refugees—some of us never truly leave home behind.
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by Kaitlin Fontana
This fall, Picnicface will simultaneously launch a movie, a TV show and a book. Can eight nerds from Halifax resuscitate Canada’s ailing comedy scene?
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by Julie Salverson
A mine in the Northwest Territories provided much of the uranium used during the Manhattan Project—unbeknownst to the indigenous people who worked there.
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by Rahat Kurd
The hijab is the most powerful item of clothing in secular Western society—and the least understood.
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by Maisonneuve Staff
Seven of the best end-zone celebrations in football.
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by Maisonneuve Staff
Ten of the Halifax comedy group’s most hilarious videos.
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by Madeline Coleman
Magazine profiles of notable women still fixate on femininity—especially when they’re penned by men.
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by Sheila Heti
An artist’s life has endless possibilities—until it’s time to grow up.
by Pasha Malla
You might not be able to buy love, but paying for an emotional experience doesn’t have to feel cheap.
by Andrew Braithwaite
Why officials are getting tough on one of the CFL’s most beloved elements: hilarious touchdown celebrations.
by Drew Nelles
Please don’t talk about your band. You’re only going to embarrass yourself.
by Andreas Rutkauskas
Mountaineering in the age of Google Earth.
by Anna Leventhal
You probably shouldn’t answer that, my roommate said. But I was halfway there.
by Anita Lahey
“The Foe” and “Jab.”
by Nicolas Langelier
Excerpted from the novel Réussir son hypermodernité et sauver le reste de sa vie en 25 étapes faciles by Nicolas Langelier. Translation by Jessica Horstmann.
by Melissa Bull
I said, This is the fucking Bukowski Lawn-Bowling League.
by Chandler Levack
Summer listens: tUnE-yArDs, Austra, Timber Timbre and more.
by Maisonneuve Staff
Summer reads: Madeleine Thien, Dimitri Nasrallah, Clark Blaise 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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