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Quall & Quire Summer Virtual Festival Guide

Seven book festivals bring Canada’s literary landscape to your fingertips BY RYAN PORTER
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Falling behind
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Side notes
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Outside the lines
Cole Pauls’s work is inspired by ’80s and ’90s comic strips, punk rock, and his own Tahltan heritage
Pictures of the future
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REVIEWS
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War crimes
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Between you and me
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BOOK MAKING
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