Current Affairs

Detail from the Feb. 5, 2015 cover of the Toronto Star

Media

Dropping Science

February 12, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

The Toronto Star’s scandalously bad article on HPV vaccines illustrates a larger problem with Canadian newsrooms

March 2015 / Media

Editor’s Note

February 12, 2015April 10, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

I signed on for six months but stayed six years because I believed in the project and enjoyed the work. As I take my leave, I want to introduce Jonathan …

Politics

Think Inside the Box

February 4, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Marni Soupcoff

The government’s new security bill is designed to scrub “terrorist propaganda” from the Internet. It will also curtail freedom of thought

World

Keeping the Republic Together

January 16, 2015April 10, 2020 - by James D. Le Sueur

Modern France was created through the assimilation of agrarian serfs. In a post-colonial age, the task of integrating five million North African émigrés has proven to be a very different sort of project

World

Of Free Speech and Fatwas

January 9, 2015April 10, 2020 - by James D. Le Sueur

Drawing lessons from the brave Arab thinkers who have been victimized by censorious jihadis for decades

Photograph of Fidel Castro by Marcelo Montecito

Politics

Class with Castro

December 29, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Harley Rustad

When Fidel almost came to Dalhousie

Media

Your Favourite Things

December 21, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Matthew McKinnon

Our most popular magazine articles, videos, podcasts, and blog posts published in 2014

January/February 2015 / Media

Editor’s Note

December 15, 2014April 13, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

These are troubled times for North American journalism. The organizations that fund most of it—newspapers, magazines, and radio and television networks—are distressed. The business model that made them so profitable …