Geist 99

Daniel Francis
Columns
Umpire of the St. Lawrence

Donald Creighton was a bigot and a curmudgeon, a cranky Tory with a chip on his shoulder. He was also the country’s leading historian, who changed the way that Canadians told their own story.

Deborah Ostrovsky
Dispatches
Petites Pattes

Montreal was once the “City of a Thousand Steeples.” Today it’s the city of a thousand church bazaars open on Saturdays to keep the cash flow up.

Eve Corbel
Dispatches
The 99: Bus Without Pity

How did the 99 B-Line bus route come to be the locus of the most heartless transit rides in Greater Vancouver?

roni-simunovic
Reviews
Space-time Queertinuum

Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy Comics Anthology is an action-packed, swashbuckling collection of short comics produced by twenty six writers and artists of diverse sexualities and genders.

Michał Kozłowski
Reviews
Poets on Film

The Western Front, Canada’s longest running artist-run centre, recently hosted a public screening of two dozen or so films from their archive of readings by poets from the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

George A. Walker
La Vie en Rose

Pierre Trudeau among the stars—a series of woodblock prints by George Walker.

Stephen Osborne
Dispatches
Last Steve Standing

Stephen Osborne says goodbye to Stephen Harper.

HAL NIEDZVIECKI
Mars TV

"Christy Foley is going to live on Mars. Or at least, that’s what she’s hoping."

Michał Kozłowski
Dispatches
Centre of the Universe

Michal Kozlowski reports on the state of publishing: s'mores, Titantic metaphors, Celtic jigs, steak canapés and mechanical bull riding.

Robert Everett-Green
Dispatches
Checkered Past

For me, the jacket is a piece of menswear history that I can actually put on, and a link to the tragicomic tale of an underachiever with a famous name.

EVE JOSEPH
Death Matters

It is not uncommon for there to be periods of agitation shortly before death. People often try to rise from their beds as if they have to get somewhere.

Stephen Henighan
Columns
Power of Denial

The crowds learned that they could not act effectively in the present without confronting the past, specifically the historical treatment of indigenous people.

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