Unpublished Newswire

After more than a day of scratching at his protruding brain implant until it bled, Kenny, a research macaque who lives inside a York University lab, reportedly pulled out the implant from his right ear, revealing an oozing wound. Kenny is one of at least nine research macaques held at York — Canada’s fourth largest university — as part of its biomedical research into brain systems controlling vision and actions of the eyes, head and hand. The treatment of those macaques is the subject of a formal inquiry by the Canadian Council on Animal Care ( CCAC ). Video footage recorded inside...

I’m hanging at the back of the venue, not sure who to talk to. My hair is thick with wax, and my hands are stuffed in the pockets of my vintage Ralph Lauren bomber jacket, which I bought in my last year of high school. The band is good—four dudes playing loose, sardonic indie rock; the front man has a presence both enticing and repelling. It’s the kind of room I’ve been in a million times over my ten years in Montreal, and I, once again, feel a mixture of belonging and artifice, like I’m playing a part. Only here, that feeling is not entirely a product of my psyche. We are, in fact, on...