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Occupation Anxiety
Lisa Bird-Wilson on UNDRIP, reconciliation, and the anxiety felt by Indigenous people in Canada. Read more
Beginning at the Beginning
To teach us how to read Don Quixote, a text so contrary to conventional literary tradition, the prologue itself needed to break from all traditions Read more
The Devil
We insist The Devil whispers horrible things in our ear and inspires our worst deeds. Read more
Residential Roots
"The hemispheric context reveals the roots of the residential school system...Destroying Indigenous cultures was a positivist policy from Patagonia to Dawson City." Read more
Smashing Identity Algorithms, Yes Please
While status registration under the Indian Act is a construct, claiming status identity is an important factor in Indigenous identity and cultural transmission. Read more
Victims of Anti-Communism
Anti-communism, retired by most Western governments, receives monumental status in Canada Read more
Buried Treasure
Mary Schendlinger challenges a review of a biography of Blanche Knopf, the underrecognized co-founder of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Read more
Ethnic Babies
Stephen Henighan discusses the crude first steps to finding a new way to talk about racial reality. Read more
Hoping Against Hope
Kafka’s writing allows us intuitions and half-dreams but never total comprehension. Read more
Clowns, Cakes, Canoes: This is Canada?
Romantic notions that equate Indigenous peoples with nature are not going to cut it. Read more
Question Period
Rob Kovitz compiles the pressing questions of the day—"How are they gonna beat ISIS?" And, "On Twitter, who cares?" Read more
Write What You Can Imagine
Like most advice given to writers, the injunction to “write what you know” is misleading. Read more
Because a Lot of Questions Are Complex
Begging the question of what can be defined as “form.” Read more
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. Read more
Treason of the Librarians
On the screen, only the image—not the word—can become the world. Read more
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. Read more
Pistol Shots at a Concert
The novelist can often better define reality than the historian. Read more
Birth of a Nation
Lacking in drama and embarrassingly undemocratic, Canada’s origins owe a lot to old-fashioned politics and not much to European battles or transcontinental railways. Read more
