Editor’s Note
My guide in matters pertaining to journalism is A.J. Liebling who, from 1946 to 1963, wrote a column in The New Yorker called The Wayward Press. (He also wrote Between …
Read MoreJanuary/February 2012
Daniel Baird ponders our appetite for retribution; Charlotte Gray profiles David Johnston, Canada’s twenty-eighth Governor General; Don Gillmor reconstructs the invention of Waterloo as a high-tech powerhouse; Sara Angel studies Jack Chambers’ unfinished masterpiece; fiction by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer…
There’s Where the American Helicopters Landed
Sixtyish now, Ling Quang’s hard look lifts from the gravel where we’ve stopped, the Honda’s kickstand staked to the mountain road’s bit of shoulder, our helmets left like laid eggs …
Read More The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness
When he was thirty-eight years old, he found himself in a stranger’s basement confronted by a calendar that had stopped dead on the day he was born. He became the …
Read MoreTourtière Takes Manhattan
But does Montreal fare taste different in New York?
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The Invention of Waterloo
Canada’s Technology Triangle has spawned more than 450 high-tech companies, including BlackBerry pioneer Research in Motion. But it didn’t just happen: an upstart university had the brains to embrace mathematics
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Pipeline Offence
How TransCanada Corporation changed the game for football fans in Nebraska
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Unfinished Business
Jack Chambers died of leukemia in 1978, leaving behind an incomplete painting he had worked on for over a decade. The mystery of his masterpiece, Lunch
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