Editor’s Note
Illustration by Jeff Kulak In 1867, when the British North America Act set out the terms of Confederation, most Canadians lived in small towns and villages or on farms. Cities …
Read MoreJanuary/February 2011
Grant Stoddard visits the lost Canadians of Angle Township, MN; Lisa Gregoire profiles Eva Aariak, the premier of Nunavut; Roger Lemoyne explores one of man’s oldest obsessions in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon; Danielle Groen celebrates fifty years of Coronation Street; fiction by Lawrence Hill…
Portraits of Women in Nunavut
A visual companion to Lisa Gregoire’s “Madam Premier”
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Craving Corrie
Coronation Street—the quintessentially British soap opera that turns fifty this year—attracts 1.3 million Canadian viewers a night. Why?
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Civil and Civic
You talk across periods; I draw on arms with blue pen, The Clash, et cetera. With gall you hang posters, know the slogans. You savour the word disobedience, chew chocolate …
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The Morgentaler Effect
What the champion of reproductive rights has to teach the right-to-die movement
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What Canada could learn from Islamic finance
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Memento Mirmy
The boneyard aesthetic of Vancouver’s Mirmy Winn
Read MoreCareful What You Pray For
This appeared in the January/February 2011 issue.
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Eva Aariak Is Reinventing Politics in the North
The Nunavut premier is one of several women who are defining the future of the territory
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Meet You at the Door
I had been typing since I was thirteen. On my mother’s L.C. Smith, my friend Howie and I made up our own Typing Olympics
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