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FEATURES

High Finance

Billions are going into cannabis sales. Where’s the cash from this secret economy going? Bud Inc. has the whole country buzzing
By Brian Joseph Davis [Read more]

Invisible Threat

How can a real-life pandemic compete with the avian flu of our imaginations?
By Anurita Bains [Read more]

Forty is the New 30

Editor’s Note By Emily Schultz [Read more]

Free to Be, CBC

The lockout showed that the price of free broadcasting is eternal diligence. If Canadians own the CBC, why can’t we hire and fire?
By Suzanne Alyssa Andrew [Read more]

The Man, the Tree, the Tribe & the Loggers

This Magazine talks to Governor General’s Award-winner John Vaillant to get the story behind the one-in-a-billion tree, the golden spruce
By Bill Reynolds [Read more]


THIS & THAT

Special online-only reading:Google: Over 380 Million ServedTerence Dick on Google’s world domination

Bloomfield BetrayedMunicipality sides with mouldBy Sean Flinn

SpendstrongWhy charity bracelets confuse the issuesBy Karen Darricades

The Overtime StingJournalist flies above the radarBy Nadeem Basaria

A Highway Runs Through ItBy Ron Nurwisah

Surprise PartyHow to plan a fabulous electionBy Dale Duncan

Attention Transit RidersHow much bus are you getting for your buck?

If You Build It, Will They Come?Getting taken for a ride by grand transit plansBy Tara-Michelle Ziniuk

Trustworthy?Are income trusts a social programs cash-suck?By Ellen Russell

We’re Here, We’re Square, Get Used to It!From the Christian Right to the language of the Left, there’s a new kind of identity theftBy Heather Gold

FICTION & POETRY

3 poems by Ali Riley the Heart is a lonely long-distance runner
Hausfrau
Snow White Spills

Tearing Down the WestStuart Ross Interviews Ali Riley

The Mouths of Babes By Heather Hogan

ARTS & IDEAS

The Great InfiltratorJeff Chapman’s work authorized others to open doors in their citiesBy Cameron Gordon

Independently YoursPaul Jay has a plan to make TV news what it was meant to be. But is bias so easily banished?By Diane Peters

Read This: Androids, Dead Presidents, and Those Darn Degrassi Kids Kill the Robot, by Maggie MacDonald. Review by Tara-Michelle Ziniuk
Growing Up Degrassi, edited by Michele Byers. Review by Jodi-Ann Smith
Iron-on Constellations, by Emily Pohl-Weary. Review by Tara-Michelle Ziniuk
Showbiz, by Jason Anderson. Review by Terence Dick

Hear This: The New Queens of NoiseFor Calgary’s Kilbourne, it’s all about the soundBy Liz Worth

Hear This: Dirty DebuntantesFor Montreal’s Ladies Luncheon, it’s all about the funBy Nathaniel G. Moore

Back StoryLoving the AlienThere’s more to sci-fi than meets the eyeBy Maggie Helwig



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