Aristotle Got It
The necessity of funding contemporary art, even if you don’t like it
Read MoreOctober 2012
Ken Coates and Bill Morrison detail the uses and abuses of university; Michael Harris profiles Joseph Arvay, Canada’s best interpreter of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Tom Jokinen goes inside the ranks of the new New Democrats; Stacey May Fowles on the hard-luck heroines of Canadian literature; fiction by Michael Crummey…
Editor’s Note
Whatever else it accomplished, the Occupy Movement, launched a year ago in New York’s Zuccotti Park, put income inequality on the agenda. The phrases “the 1 percent” and “the 99 …
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The Small Hours
He had his parents’ second car to get around the city, to ferry his father to and from appointments at the hospital, but he was staying at a boarding house …
Read MoreBar Stool Stories
An oral history of Mohawk ironworkers
Read MoreA Girl’s Life
Marjorie Celona’s coming of age novel, Y, tells a familiar story of female suffering
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What Would Tommy Douglas Think?
New Democrats today promise to make your life better without subscribing to anything as old-fashioned as a system of beliefs. Inside the ranks of the party unfaithful
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