Winter Archive
by Myles Estey
Liberia has emerged from a civil war of mind-numbing brutality. You can fix the roads, but how do you heal an entire population?
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by Jean-Yves Girard
The generation that launched the queer-rights movement is entering its golden years. Some are still in no hurry to step out of the closet. Translated by Valerie Howes.
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by Joel Elliott
You’ve returned from a traumatizing tour of duty, suicidal and haunted by images you can’t forget. Why won’t the military help?
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by Dave Bidini
It is an important rite of passage: the breakup of the band you once loved. Dave Bidini recalls the friendship that sank with New Wave.
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by Jon Evans
The internet’s power to take down tyranny lies beyond Twitter. Jon Evans on the high-tech programs every despot should fear.
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by Jay Somerset
Collapsed industries, racist policies and cancer are topics most country bands avoid. But five musicians—Toronto’s One Hundred Dollars—are rebooting Canada’s gritty folk tradition.
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by Stephen O'Shea
Eight hundred years ago, crusaders slaughtered twenty thousand people in Languedoc, France. Today, fascination with the massacre has turned the region into a tourist trap.
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by Les Horswill
The border between Canada and the United States pits two great countries against each other. Les Horswill makes the case for a greater North American federation.
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by Shaun Pett
Endless economic growth hasn’t made us happier, so why do governments still tie well-being to wealth? Presenting a new, made-in-Canada benchmark for progress.
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by A.M. Hinton
For A.M. Hinton, abortion was simply another issue to debate over drinks. Then she became pregnant.
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by John Semley
At a time when comic book culture has never been more mainstream — or more lucrative — where’s the line between wannabe and true believer?
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by Nathan Whitlock
In their scramble to find the next breakthrough book, publishers are marketing awkward hybrids that are neither literary enough to last nor commercial enough to entertain.
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by Kasia Juno van Schaik
The prize-winning story from last year’s Quebec Writing Competition
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by Christopher Miller
Cute, skinny and scantily clad, flappers gave the rough-and-tumble funnies a much-needed sexual charge.
by Susan Briscoe
Four poems
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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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