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ISSUE 43 Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012

online content:

• The Antagonist

  by Marianne Ackerman Eccentric actor-activist Donovan King has waged a decade-long campaign against the Montreal Fringe Festival. He’s caused plenty of headaches—and divided the city’s tiny anglophone theatre scene. [full text]

• Anatomy of an Occupation

  by Paul Gettlich What really happened at Occupy Toronto? [full text]

• The Death of Networks

  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. [full text]

• Tenth Anniversary Timeline

  by Maisonneuve Staff A decade of Maisonneuve. [full text]

also in this issue:

• Face the Music

  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.

• The Big Job

  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.

• The Homesickness of Astronauts

  by Johanna Skibsrud "She felt a great sadness. She would remember next to nothing of this, even soon."
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