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Daniel Francis
Reviews
Red Scare

The Bolshevists are coming! The Bolshevists are coming! Daniel Francis recounts Canada's close call with a revolution.

Daniel Francis
Reviews
Re-hanging the National Wallpaper

When I lived in Ottawa in the 1970s, I used to enjoy passing lazy afternoons at the National Gallery looking at the pictures. I remember how surprised I was when I first encountered the Group of Seven collection. These paintings were completely familiar—I’d seen them in schoolbooks and on calendars, posters, t-shirts, everywhere—yet at the same time they were completely unexpected.

David L. Chapman
Reviews
Postcolonial Bodies

Mastery of the self

Bill MacDonald
Columns
An Ounce of Civet

Dinner with James Reaney—poet, playwright, professor—who is mistaken by a pair of Irish ladies for “that decadent writer Mordecai Richler.”

M.A.C. Farrant
Reviews
Attila the Bookseller

I answered the ad: SWM likes to dance. Called him up (said his name was Jay), suggested we meet at the local cafe Tuesday night, something different, a performance poet performing. Free coffee and cookies, the place rocking with middle-aged angst.

Paul Tough
Dispatches
City Still Breathing: Listening to the Weakerthans

I wasn’t certain whether I was in Winnipeg because of the Weakerthans, or whether I cared about the Weakerthans because I care about Winnipeg.

SADIQA DE MEIJER
Essays
Do No Harm

Doing time is not a blank, suspended existence.

Steven Heighton
Reviews
Everything Turns Away

Going unnoticed must be the root sorrow for the broken.

Annabel Lyon
Reviews
Eye for Detail

What is at the heart of this Edith Iglauer profile by Giller nominee Annabel Lyon? Hint: Ice Road Truckers.

JUDY LEBLANC
Essays
Walking in the Wound

It is racism, not race, that is a risk factor for dying of COVID-19.

Daniel Francis
Columns
War of Independence

World War I, Canada’s “war of independence,” marked a turning point for a young colony wanting to prove itself as a self-reliant nation, but at what cost.

M.A.C. Farrant
Reviews
Notes on the Wedding

The mother of the groom measures the distance between two weddings: twenty-six years, six thousand miles, and a donkey covered with flowers. It’s outtasight.

J. Jill Robinson
Dispatches
One Night at the Oceanview

Did that really happen? J. Jill Robinson initiates a midnight stand-off between the police and two drunk brothers in an RV Park in White Rock, B.C.

CONNIE KUHNS
Reviews
Life After Virginity

A flower child looks back, to the time between Motown and acid rock.

Caroline Adderson
Reviews
Lives of the House

A basement shrine in her 1920s home inspires Caroline Adderson to discover the past lives of her house and its inhabitants.

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