No Escape, Not Even to Kyoto
There’s no escaping anything in life. Fly all the way to Tahiti or the Himalayas, and what you’ll find—as the Hollywood clichés often remind us—is that person who’s always longing …
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Summertime, When the Visigoths Go Pillaging
There’s something intriguing about the currently received notion of summer as a season for escape. Once upon a very different time, if you were escaping in summer it was very …
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Young Leaders, Algonquin Park, 1978
My group would hump our stuff along the trail, while the other would tie ropes to the canoes and tow them up the creek
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For at least a year after the Little Long Lac gold mine closed and our family left the country north of Superior for the city of Toronto, I could bring …
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Reflections on robbing the dead
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On Moving Ice
Surviving the polar summer
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Buzz and Bastards
A close encounter with Jean Chrétien
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War Stories
Rita Leistner’s “portraitscapes” of Lebanon, 2006. NMA nominee: Photojournalism & Photo Essay
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Cowboy Camp
Novelist Guy Vanderhaeghe saddles up
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Monumental Vibrations
A blind man listens to the world’s longest song
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