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Interview With David Balzer

Interview With David Balzer

by Chandler Levack The author of Contrivances discusses Fleetwood Mac, sublimation and writing from a woman's perspective.
Interview With Joshua Clover

Interview With Joshua Clover

by Ian Beattie The poet, academic and activist discusses maps, protest movements and why art isn't politically effective.
Anatomy of an Occupation

Anatomy of an Occupation

by Paul Gettlich What really happened at Occupy Toronto?
We Will Not Leave This Place

We Will Not Leave This Place

by Kaitlin Fontana Everyone in Fernie, British Columbia knows the town is cursed. Why do we stay close to home, even in the face of endless tragedy?
Getting Plowed

Getting Plowed

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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Interview With David Balzer

by Chandler Levack The author of Contrivances discusses Fleetwood Mac, sublimation and writing from a woman’s perspective.

Interview With Joshua Clover

by Ian Beattie The poet, academic and activist discusses maps, protest movements and why art isn’t politically effective.

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The Greatest City Grid: New York or Chicago?

by Christopher Szabla

Straight as an arrow: triptych along Lake Shore Drive, Chicago

Last year, Manhattan celebrated the 200th anniversary of its vaunted grid street system, the rectilinear net that stretches from First Street in what’s now the East Village to 155th, in Washington Heights. And any assumption this was too dry a subject for most New Yorkers could have been dispelled …

Why is the CBC Doing Such a Terrible Job of Covering the Quebec Student Strike?

by Fred Burrill

The massive student demonstration on March 22 in Montreal. Photo by Yanick Crépeau.

A week ago, my brother emailed me from his home in Prince George, BC, to ask what English-language media he should be reading about the ongoing student strike here in Quebec. “I’ve only been seeing what they have on cbc.ca,” he wrote. Clearly, it …

Margaret Wente Hates Herself

by Mike Spry

Image via the Globe and Mail.

I wasn’t going to say anything. I was just going to keep my mouth shut. I spent the entirety of April writing poetry, and feeling okay about myself, about my current station. I discovered charcuterie as a meal. I’ve cut back on my smoking. Spring sprang. Life was good. In the background …

On Quebec’s Student Strike

by Drew Nelles

iPhone photo by Jesse Rosenfeld.

Last night, I met my friend Jesse and we walked to downtown Montreal, to attend a demonstration against higher tuition fees. Hundreds of thousands of Quebec students have been on strike for the last two months, and Jesse, a journalist, was in town from Toronto to cover the movement. I had first met him seven …

Tenth Anniversary: Spring

ISSUE 43 Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012

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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."
  • [see full issue contents]