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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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…
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.
Coalition of the Sort-of Willing Canada Iraq Police
On a US base in Jordan, Canadian cops are training new Iraqi police officers for an impossible assignment
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Open for Business
How international corporations are exploiting our nation’s positive image with little more than a postal box
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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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