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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
HAL NIEDZVIECKI
Mars TV
"Christy Foley is going to live on Mars. Or at least, that’s what she’s hoping."
Stephen Osborne
Dispatches
Last Steve Standing
Stephen Osborne says goodbye to Stephen Harper.
George A. Walker
La Vie en Rose
Pierre Trudeau among the stars—a series of woodblock prints by George Walker.
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.
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.