Tough Lessons
Reflections on a popular teacher with a dark secret. Do tighter sexual abuse laws help or hinder students?
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…
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
Read MoreBeyond the Fringe
The Edmonton festival has launched a thousand careers—and has arguably corrupted a generation of performers
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Apocalypse Soon
Prophecies of impending doom—based on hard science as well as Scripture—abound. Where does our appetite for retribution come from?
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