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    The Fear Divide

    • by Melina Gillies
    • Culture, Features, Short reads
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    Sticky situation: the comeback of the cassette tape

    • by Scott Messenger
    • Culture, Short reads
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    High and lonesome sound: Canada’s rural crisis

    • by Robbie Jeffrey
    • Culture, Features, Profiles
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    Homeland for the Holidays

    • by Omar Mouallem
    • Features, Home
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Edmontonian Time

  • by Rollie Pemberton
  • on Saturday, October 21st, 2017
  • in Culture, Features, Short reads
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The clock in my hometown ticks toward a once-distant optimism. Rollie Pemberton on leaving – and coming – home

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Canada, You’re Like My Favourite One-Day Uncle and I Love You

  • by Richard Van Camp
  • on Saturday, October 21st, 2017
  • in Culture, Features, Short reads
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Oh, Canada, on your 150th birthday, you’re old enough now to hear this: keep your promises

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City of Tastemakers: Inside Edmonton’s Culinary Boom

  • by Jennifer Cockrall-King
  • on Friday, October 20th, 2017
  • in Culture, Features, Profiles
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From the Aboriginal chef reinventing the restaurant industry’s idea of dinner to the baker changing the pastry business one macaron at a time, Edmonton has hit its culinary stride. Jennifer Cockrall-King talks to the city’s top chefs to find out why us – and why now

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‘God Knows What Canada Is’: What It’s Really Like to Be a Refugee

  • by Omar Mouallem
  • on Friday, May 5th, 2017
  • in Culture, Features, Home, Politics, Profiles
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After the election of the Trudeau Liberals, Canada swiftly rebranded itself as a tolerant, open-armed society. But as alt-right sentiments seep across the border, how welcoming is the country? Omar Mouallem meets the refugees facing racism, xenophobia and the very idea of Canadianness

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Stitch by stitch: weaving the story of queer Edmonton

  • by Darrin Hagen
  • on Thursday, October 19th, 2017
  • in Culture, Features
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I remember the day 40 years ago – 1977 – that Anita Bryant took a pie in the face on live television. I remember it because it was an ugly media moment – an angry gay activist tossing baked goods to score political points; a homophobic crusader and former Miss America covered in whipped cream, tearfully […]

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Cheap Seats: 39 Hours on the Greyhound – With a Toddler

  • by Josiah Neufeld
  • on Tuesday, July 11th, 2017
  • in Culture, Features, Home, Short reads
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Three summers ago, I took the Greyhound from Vancouver to a family gathering in Winnipeg with my two-year-old son. When I mentioned to friends that I was taking the bus, they were surprised. With a toddler? Was it safe? Did the passengers stink? The choice wasn’t difficult. My partner and I didn’t own a car. […]

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Walmart in Whitehorse: searching for culture in a consumerist paradise

  • by Kit Dobson
  • on Friday, May 5th, 2017
  • in Culture, Features
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Our writer hits the aisles in Canada’s storied frontier city

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Pantry in the permafrost: Inside the arctic doomsday vault

  • by Jennifer Cockrall-King
  • on Friday, May 5th, 2017
  • in Culture, Environment, Features, Science and technology, Short reads
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Thousands of seeds are locked in a frozen mountain in Norway to protect our global food supply. Should we be worried? Our writer bundles to visit the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Born to run: meet Ed Whitlock, the octogenarian marathon man

  • by Bruce Grierson
  • on Sunday, March 19th, 2017
  • in Culture, Features, Short reads
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He doesn’t have a ‘workout regime’ or a special diet, he just hits the ground running. So how has Whitlock become one of the finest athletes of the last thirty years?

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Trump in Technicolor

  • by Paul Matwychuk
  • on Thursday, January 19th, 2017
  • in Culture, Features, Home, Politics, Short reads
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Washington never saw the Donald Trump presidency coming – but Hollywood did

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