June 2009
Monte Paulsen details Canada’s failure to develop high-speed rail; Chris Turner considers geologist David Hughes’s argument that we are about to run out of fossil fuels; a photo essay by Balazs Gardi depicts life in wartime Afghanistan; Rick Salutin explores the Haida giving tradition of the potlatch; fiction by Lisa Moore…
Land of the Lost
An illustrated series
Read MoreAn Inconvenient Talk
Dave Hughes’s guide to the end of the fossil fuel age
Read MoreMan with a Movie Camera
Canada’s Mark Lewis launches an ambitious (and expensive) project for the Venice Biennale
Read MoreThe Prodigal Preacher
A grandson contemplates a patriarch who favoured the company of strangers
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Waiting for a New Day
Scenes from Afghan life in wartime
Read MoreOff the Rails
How Canada fell from leader to laggard in high-speed rail, and why that needs to change
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Crossing the Dezadeash, Haines Junction
It comes to you often in the moments that you have alone: perhaps you’ve died. Climbing the stairs between offices, you’ve noticed it, a slowing of perception, a slightly altered …
Read MoreBack In Palookaville
Cartoonist and designer Seth emerges as comics’ premier historian
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Extreme Giving
For the Haida of the Pacific Northwest, the potlach is still at the centre of a culture of in which you are what you give
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