Editor’s Note
The Conservative government’s plan to create a national securities regulator came to naught late last year when the Supreme Court ruled that it would be unconstitutional; our Constitution gives provinces …
Read MoreMonth: April 2012
Life Is a Carnival
Dinner finished, wine in hand, in a vaguely competitive spirit of disclosure, we trail Google Earth’s invisible pervert through the streets of our hometowns, but find them shabbier, or grossly …
Read More The Sevendogs Psalter
I’ve just now got wind of a fox that’s long got wind of men as he slinks from traffic island to traffic island to where he’s made his den in …
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The Woman in Fleece
Ann Southam, one of Canada’s most illustrious contemporary composers, lived her life as she wrote her music: with deceptive austerity
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This Is Your Life
Timeline, Facebook’s latest bid to keep you in its grasp, is unsettling—and unexpectedly beautiful
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Pay It Forward
Jennifer Baichwal is the best Canadian filmmaker you’ve never heard of. In Payback, she expands on Margaret Atwood’s book, exploring the human condition of owing and being owed
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Fresh Ingredients
After the NDP’s Orange Wave, a rookie MP learns to cook
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On Tipping in Cuba
In which the writer discovers the uncomfortable socio-macroeconomics of the cheap beach vacation
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Overdeveloped
After the tsunami and three decades of civil war, Sri Lanka’s president is pouring development funds into his home district of Hambantota. But what about the rest of the country?
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