Summer Archive
by Émilie Côté
Montreal is now home to a growing population of French newcomers. But what’s the allure of Quebec, and does it live up to expectations?
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by Alex Hutchinson
Don’t call it bullshit—manure can power farms, heat homes and run engines. Presenting the twenty-first century’s most undervalued hope for renewable energy.
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by Sheila Heti
Once, all that stood between you and the part you wanted was the right monologue.
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by John Semley
You’ve heard of grindhouse, blaxploitation and kung fu flicks. But Canada has its own unique B-movie tradition—Canuxploitation—and new directors are catching on.
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by Rahat Kurd
At the height of Michaelmania, everyone moonwalked—even Muslim kids in Hamilton, Ontario.
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by Abou Farman
The next stage in evolution—a machine consciousness able to manipulate time and space—is just around the corner. The catch: humans will no longer be in charge.
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by Mark Mann
Why do Swallowtails and Sulphurs swarm Alberta’s oil rigs?
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by Salvatore Ciolfi
The internet has changed the way porn writers depict sex. How one man nearly became a scribe of smut.
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by Various
Online companion essays to our print-only “The Music We Hate” feature: Daniel Johnston, Destroyer, Belle and Sebastian, Lady Gaga, Timber Timbre, the xx and more.
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by the Editors
Seven top music critics take on the worst bands in the world.
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by Chandler Levack
“There is more to Toronto’s music than a mediocre band with one good album.”
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by Carl Wilson
“Radiohead’s Intelligent Musicianship is always up in my face. It’s like being distracted, mid-act, by the fine detailing of a partner’s high-end labial cosmetic surgery.”
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by Sean Michaels
“There’s too much Sufjan in every Sufjan song. His Achilles heel—his Trojan calcaneus! his Pelean hoof!—is his penchant for excess.”
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by Sarah Liss
“Neon Indian trade in hollow revivalism. The songs on their 2009 debut Psychic Chasms add up to a smug, kitschy, Ray Ban dress-up party.”
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by Ryan McNutt
“Newsom’s music doesn’t care two figs what I think about it. It neither asks nor demands anything of its listener.”
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by Michael Barclay
“Animal Collective embody the entitled millennial generation, products of a coddled culture that gives undue praise to minimal effort and cherishes signifiers over content.”
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by Dave Morris
“Welcome to the post–Sonic Youth era: where getting in bed with corporate America is no longer frowned upon but practically mandatory.”
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by Rebecca Rosenblum
Authors always treat evil as an incomprehensible, barely-human force waiting to be defeated—but that’s pure fiction. It’s high time we saw villains as people too.
by Andrew Steinmetz
A new short story.
by David Seymour
Eight poems.
online content:
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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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also in this issue:
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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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