The Woman in Fleece
Ann Southam, one of Canada’s most illustrious contemporary composers, lived her life as she wrote her music: with deceptive austerity
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Life Is a Carnival
Dinner finished, wine in hand, in a vaguely competitive spirit of disclosure, we trail Google Earth’s invisible pervert through the streets of our hometowns, but find them shabbier, or grossly …
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On Tipping in Cuba
In which the writer discovers the uncomfortable socio-macroeconomics of the cheap beach vacation
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Four Stories
The Life of a Zombie He and I moved in together a week ago, and I am still blown away by my feelings for him. I had given up after …
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The Deficit in Financial Intelligence
A federal task force proposes a financial literacy leader to teach us what we didn’t learn in school: how to manage our money
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The Errors of Their Ways
Some 24,000 Canadians will die this year from medical mistakes. Even the most temperate doctors call this an epidemic. Why these mishaps persist despite, and even because of, medicine’s growing sophistication
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The Changing Face of Montreal’s Music Scene
“It’s in the area of music, I think, that this question of how we judge the pleasure of others reveals itself most clearly”
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Public Space
“How do you arrive at a culture of embracing difference?”
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