Editor’s Note
In September 1991, while working for CTV News, I found myself in Moscow shortly after the failed coup d’état that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It was …
Read MoreOctober 2011
Chris Turner ponders the future of food; eight months after Egypt’s revolution, Paul Wilson reports from Tahrir Square in Cairo; Craille Maguire Gillies explores the possibility of in vitro meat; Jeet Heer recounts the tradition of cannibalism in Canadian literature; fiction by Peter Norman…
Ossian’s Folly, Black Linn Falls
And thus we came to it, the falls’ vertiginous chain mail welded in spume and walking a cream-coloured column atop black basalt now black now red in the standing wave …
Read More The Idea of North
At a college in upstate New York, a band of outsiders share an esoteric interest: Canada
Read MoreDisturbing Content
Montreal FX artist Rémy Couture may face imprisonment for gory images he disseminated on his website. In horror terms, he’s made it
Read MoreFood for Thought
Mirko Betti, university researcher and self-made philosopher, represents the vanguard of a brand new technology: in vitro meat
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Revisionist Chinese
What began in immigrant-owned diners and evolved into the more authentic fare of urban Chinatowns is now giving rise to something called modern Chinese. Updated ancestral dishes, however, are not to everyone’s taste
Read MoreNew Year’s Revelations
There’s no time to lose
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Guess Who’s for Dinner
The Cannibal Spirit joins a long tradition of flesh-eating literature set in Canada
Read MoreMountain Due
Ski porn meets climate change in a new movie by the Rocky Mountain Sherpas
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