Life of Brian
london—Brian Haw and I spent the night together back in September 2002. I had a sleeping bag, which I unrolled on the grass of Parliament Square in Central London, across …
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Jeremy Rifkin suggests that Canada is quietly becoming one with the US’s “blue states”; George Emerson proposes that Canada tax blank paper; Susan McLelland looks at efforts to secure rights and protections for Canada’s immigrant nannies; Andrew Mitrovica profiles Canada’s most successful undercover agent; fiction by Margaret Atwood…
Home Away From Home in DC
washington—When I first moved to Toronto from the United States in the early 1990s, I loved watching local Buffalo news. Delightfully, it was always bad news. Murders! Arsons! Racial inequities! …
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A Mennonite’s Kill Zone
winnipeg—We live in Wolseley, a granola-belt neighbourhood. We are surrounded by tree huggers. We’ve got standards to uphold, pacifist Mennonite standards. So, for the teenage boys in our family, when …
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Crazy Life
Italian artist Carol Rama, now 86, has been controversial since 1945
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Copycat Crimes
If the music industry can profit from a sneaky, hidden, ridiculous tax, why can’t publishers
profit from a tax on paper?
Catch of the Day
Who needs cod? Newfoundlanders troll the seas for treasures of a different kind.
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All’s Well That Ends
As The Newsroom enters its final season (again), Ken Finkleman faces his last temptation: being nice
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Masked Avenger
Meet “John Holloway,” former clown, trucker, drug addict, high-paid crime fighter,
serious adrenalin junkie, and—for now—retired undercover agent
The Bonfire Is Out
Illustration by Courtney Wotherspoon books by tom wolfe discussed in this essay: I Am Charlotte Simmons HarperCollins (2004) 676 pp., $37.95 Hooking Up Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2000) 293 pp., …
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String Theory
As a classical violinist I have learned,
over many years, that great music performances are
more than a matter of physics and technique.