Thirty-five Million Canadians Are Not Enough
A nation founded on immigration and diversity? Not quite. How Canada’s closed borders wrecked the country’s development
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What I Learned From Talking to Failed Suicide Bombers
Stopping violent extremism means confronting the West’s role as an ISIS spectator
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How Claire Messud Learned to Talk Like a Teenage Girl
The author’s new novel gives readers a glimpse into the complicated lives of young women
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Why Good Historical Fiction Is so Hard to Write in Canada
Can Kathleen Winter’s new novel make us care about our country’s past?
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The Personal Essay Isn’t Dead. It’s Just No Longer White
Recent criticism of the form’s faults says more about the genre’s historical whiteness than it does the talent of its new stars
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The Best Way to Combat Climate Change is Compromise
We’ve turned the oil industry into an ideological war zone—and that is why both sides are losing
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Why I Don’t Read Rebecca Solnit
It’s time to stop buying into the author’s brand of pop feminism
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How Gamergate Pioneered the Backlash Against Diversity
The fight to keep women out of the new economy started with video games
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Kaie Kellough’s Debut Novel Is a Grand Experiment
The Montreal writer gives voice to the city’s iconoclasts
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When America Declared War on Us
Canadian fears of a US invasion have a long history in our literature
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