March 2005
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…
Le Nom De L’Anonyme
The sky opens it always does. From here to the lake the freshly born birds fall pink onto the streets from all the standing trees. I open my arms to …
Read MoreNanny Abuse
Video-still from Brown Women Blond Babies, a documentary by Marie Boti and Sr. Florchita Bautista. / © 1991 Productions Multi-Monde Sometimes when you are driving by a park you’ll catch …
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Water Torture
soweto—“Shoot the may-or, the may-or, the may-or! I shot the may-or, the may-or, the may-or!” Roughly 500 men, women, and children march down Rissik Street, through the business district of …
Read MoreContinentalism of a Different Stripe
Are Canadian provinces and the blue states in the U.S. quietly forging a radical new
North American Union ? This American says, “Yes.”
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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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 …
Read MoreCrazy Life
Italian artist Carol Rama, now 86, has been controversial since 1945
Read MoreCopycat Crimes
If the music industry can profit from a sneaky, hidden, ridiculous tax, why can’t publishers
profit from a tax on paper?