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! …
Read MoreMarch 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…
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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Continentalism 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.”
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 MoreNanny Abuse
Many nannies suffer quietly in isolation, often cowed into silence by employers who threaten them with deportation
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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 …
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