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Mosque Makeovers

Mosque Makeovers

Reimagining a sacred space
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Read the related article by Matt Mossman

Intelligence Deficit

Intelligence Deficit

What will happen when computers become smarter than people?
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Read the related article by Alex Hutchinson

To Pot

To Pot

Legalizing marijuana would benefit everyone: cops, taxpayers, and victims of crime. Everyone, that is, but the stoners
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Read the related article by Matthew McKinnon

The Species Problem

The Species Problem

What do you get when you cross a polar bear with a grizzly?
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Read the related article by Alison Martell

Summer of the Flesh Eater

Summer of the Flesh Eater

Field notes on the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original (Presented by Post Hypnotic Press)
Right-click to download Online Exclusive from our May 2011 issue
Read the related article by Zsuzsi Gartner

On the Margins of Freedom

On the Margins of Freedom

An essay by a Canadian convicted of murder
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Read the related article by Atif Rafay

Mister Right

Mister Right

How has Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper’s new chief of staff, reached the top of the business and political worlds without making enemies?
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Read the related article by Michael Posner

Criminous Minds

Criminous Minds

A new wave of crime writers are exploring the darkest corners of Canadian society
Right-click to download Reading from our March 2011 issue
Read the related article by Richard Poplak

The Archivist

The Archivist

How I found Stieg Larsson’s inner sanctum
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Read the related article by Paul Wilson

False Heroes

False Heroes

The Conservatives have positioned themselves as fiscal saviours, but slaying the deficit will be a cinch
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Read the related article by John Lorinc

Riffing

Riffing

Jazz inspired Michael Snow, the most influential Canadian artist of all time, to explore the unexplored
Right-click to download Reading from our March 2011 issue
Read the related article by Daniel Baird

The Long Goodbye

The Long Goodbye

When the end of life comes later in life, the consequences are often unexpected — and often painful
Right-click to download Reading from our March 2011 issue
Read the related article by Katherine Ashenburg

The New Solitudes

The New Solitudes

Canada was once defined by the schism between English and French. Today, our divide is increasingly ideological. Can it be bridged?
Right-click to download Reading from our March 2011 issue
Read the related article by Erna Paris

The Life Raft

The Life Raft

Canada Reads is an essential way for publishers to sell books — but at what cost to literature?
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Read the related article by Jeet Heer

Craving Corrie

Craving Corrie

Coronation Street — the quintessentially British soap opera that turns fifty this year — attracts 1.3 million Canadian viewers a night. Why?
Right-click to download Reading from our Jan/Feb 2011 issue
Read the related article by Danielle Groen

The Assassination of the Canadian Kid

The Assassination of the Canadian Kid

Remembering a little-known hero of Australian independence
Right-click to download Reading from our Jan/Feb 2011 issue
Read the related article by Justin Robertson

The Morgentaler Effect

The Morgentaler Effect

What the champion of reproductive rights has to teach the right-to-die movement
Right-click to download Reading from our Jan/Feb 2011 issue
Read the related article by Wayne Sumner

Madam Premier

Madam Premier

How Eva Aariak is reinventing the politics of the North
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Read the related article by Lisa Gregoire

The Lost Canadians

The Lost Canadians

They should be living in Manitoba, but due to a map-maker’s error they're living in Minnesota. The Americans of Angle Township
Right-click to download Reading from our Jan/Feb 2011 issue
Read the related article by Grant Stoddard

Memento Mirmy

Memento Mirmy

The boneyard aesthetic of Vancouver’s Mirmy Winn
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Read the related article by Marcello Di Cintio

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