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How True Are Your Memories?

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I don’t know how long I’d been crying when my mother hit the brakes of our Jimmy and pulled to the side of a country road. It was late August, […]

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‘Don’t worry, I won’t kill you’: inside the world of homeless tourism

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From Prague to Los Angeles, tours led by homeless people are revealing the dark side of the city. But do they hurt the very people they aim to help?

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Pod save America: podcasts to survive the Trump presidency

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From soul-searching Democrats to the king of rightwing radio, here are the podcasts to help you understand the next four years

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Wivenhoe Park Landscape, John Constable

The Cloud Appreciation Society’s chief cloud-spotter

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Gavin Pretor-Pinney’s silver linings playbook

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Love lockdown

May 29, 2016by Craille Maguire Gillies Leave a comment

Despite the graffiti and the locks, Ponte Milvio itself seemed no worse for wear. If Garibaldi couldn’t destroy it, then how could something as innocent as love?

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Journeys in Literature: Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades

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Like Alice Munro, my grandmother came from small-town Ontario, and my memories chime with Munro’s tales of passionate girls and women with stifled passions

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Olafur Eliasson Lego by Christian Johannesen

Lego: Can this kid’s toy help us build better cities?

May 14, 2015by Craille Maguire Gillies

Lego wants to be taken seriously by architects, urban planners, even MIT. Can these pricey kids’ toys teach us how to build better cities, or is it all just brand hype?

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Portfolio, Writing
Reese Witherspoon in Wild

The film that makes me cry: Wild with Reese Witherspoon

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I was worried that Reese Witherspoon’s desert odyssey would be mawkish – but with sarcasm and shared history, it punched me in the gut

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Cape Island house Newfoundland

Memory Cabin

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A visit to one abandoned community in Newfoundland finds that perhaps you can go home again

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Behind the Olympics: The Spectacle of all Spectacles

February 10, 2014by Craille Maguire Gillies

Technology and elaborate storytelling have made opening and closing ceremonies increasingly grand. After the mind-blowing extravaganzas of Beijing, Vancouver and London, can Sochi go to new levels?

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