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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Meet You at the Door
This happened back in the dinosaur days, in the town of Gull Lake, population 800. The gulls had all died, and if ever there had been a lake it had …
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Uncivilizing Influences
What makes a video game “addictive”?
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The Return of Gold Fever
One of Canada’s pre-eminent photojournalists explores one of man’s oldest obsessions in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon
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The Lost Canadians
They should be living in Manitoba, but due to a map-maker’s error they’re living in Minnesota. The Americans of Angle Township
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The Assassination of the Canadian Kid
Remembering a little-known hero of Australian independence
Read MoreCraving 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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