The Banff Protocols

Stephen Osborne

In Banff there is noth­ing to call you away from wher­ever you are: in Banff you are always already there

Trench Poetry

Gregory Betts

Ursula

Norbert Ruebsaat

World-Class Hotel

Myrna Garanis

Eight decades apart, a flam­boy­ant poet-performer and a cham­pion fig­ure skater brought excite­ment and a sort of glam­our to the Davenport Hotel in Spokane

Defining Moments

Stephen Osborne

The Olympic Winter Games left a trail of moments: a rare moment, a Canadian moment,  a you moment, a me moment …

Two Homes, One Wolf

David Albahari

 The immigrant’s new home rep­re­sents suc­cess and hope — doesn’t it?

Saeko Usukawa Remembered

Mary Schendlinger

Law of Small Numbers

Sheila Heti

 Are we look­ing for mean­ing in all the wrong places?

David Thompson Beats the Devil on the Kisiskatchewan River

Stephen Osborne

Thompson’s free-ranging nar­ra­tive of the New World must be the only one in which the devil is defeated at checkers

Caleb and Opa on Holiday

Norbert Ruebsaat

A story is not a lie.