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Is the World Ready for Canada to Be a Marijuana Superpower?
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Why Is Joseph Boyden’s Indigenous Identity Being Questioned?
In 1859, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts mandated one John Milton Earle “to examine into the condition of all Indians and the descendants of Indians domiciled in this Commonwealth”—including “the social and political condition of such persons,” and their “economic state.” Two years later, Earle submitted his report, a fascinating document that shows just how difficult it can be to know anyone’s exact genealogy—whether in 1861, or 2016.
The First Lady of Reefer Madness
Detective Joe Ricci and his partner, Alex Sinclair, were out on a routine bust in Vancouver’s Chinatown. It was 1916, and Ricci and Sinclair were front-line officers in the war on opium. The drug had been criminalized in Canada eight years earlier through the introduction of the Western world’s earliest drug prohibition law, and the Vancouver police department had been chasing down traffickers ever since. Ricci was a familiar sight in the neighbourhood.
January/February 2017
The evening’s last light has drained out of the sky behind the procession of dead hotels lining the beach. Up to twenty storeys high, they were built so close together …
Surf’s Up · thewalrus.ca
Today, the Edmonton Oilers will play their final game in the only arena the NHL team has ever called home. Rexall Place, the venue previously known as Skyreach Centre, before that as the Edmonton Coliseum, and earlier still—originally—as Northlands Coliseum, has housed the Oilers ever since the building opened its doors in 1974, back when the team was part of the now-defunct World Hockey Association.
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