Essays
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Here, Now
Canadian writers, living on the edge of the world, have the best view.
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The Climate Change Olympics
Perhaps some healthy provincial competition can get Canada moving.
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Fear-Driven Policy
Ottawa’s harsh new penal proposals won’t make us safer, just poorer—and less humane.
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The Winter of a Hundred Books
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The Calamity of Caledonia
What B.C. can teach Ontario about Native land claims.
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Flying Naked Next
Can we replace fear-driven theatrics with resilience in our quest for air travel security?
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Identity Crisis
But for the Liberals, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
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Poet’s Corner
Dispatches from the Winter Games
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A Shameful Track Record
The Olympic movement plays fast and loose with basic democratic values.
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Our Healthiest Industry?
Organized crime is flourishing in Canada, just as it always has.
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Genocide or "A Vast Tragedy"?
University students in an Alberta classroom try to decide.
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Rewiring Our Future
Fighting climate change with electric power
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Too Much Health Care
We can’t afford life’s creeping medicalization.
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Between Euphoria and Fear
Has traditional microeconomics ignored the mood swings that drive financial crises?
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Listen to the North
Cramming northerners’ needs into a southern model just isn’t working.
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Did the Banks Go Crazy?
Whatever economists might think, rationality and efficiency don't always go together.
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Reviewing Reviewing Today
“No customer reviews yet. Be the first.” (Amazon.com)
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The Ugly Canadian
Forget middle power. Forget model citizen. We're becoming one of the bad kids on the block.
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Anyone for Deficits?
A short history of the D-word in Canada’s development.
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Return to Grassy Narrows
A poisoned community tells its 40-year-old story.
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Help Wanted: Leader of the Free World
Can Obama fill the bill or have we all moved on?
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Canada’s Homeless Portrait Gallery
A historic collection falls victim to economic and intellectual uncertainty.
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Our Canadian Republic
Do we display too much deference to authority ... or not enough?
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History Does Matter
The future of the past in Atlantic Canada.
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An Outsider's Eye
Newfoundland culture as defined from without and within.
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American Distractions
Canada’s best hope for change lies in our own traditions.
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Progressivism's End
In Obama, both Americans and Canadians can see the promise of something new.
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Positive-Sum Politics
Beyond entrenched divisions in the United States and Canada.
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A Steady Eye
David Levine has captured the artistic and political greats of his era with nothing but a pencil.
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Fatal Attraction
The CBC’s Richard Stursberg and his romance with ratings.
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Friction over Fan Fiction
Is this burgeoning art form legal?
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Does Independence Matter?
From Elections Canada to the nuclear watchdog, the Harper government seems to disagree.
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Olympic Dreams and Fairy Tales
How will Canada’s Olympians acquit themselves in Beijing?
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The Prison of "Public Space"
Before we take to the streets, this pervasive concept needs rethinking.
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A History of Hypocrisy
Canadian complicity links U.S. Cold War torture with cases like Maher Arar’s.
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Constabulary Duties
When did the phrase “to serve and protect” begin to ring so hollow?
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Our Man in Bhutan
How a Canadian Jesuit founded a secular education system in a remote mountain nation.
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In the Garden with the Guru
Adventures with Marshall McLuhan
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Conrad Black: A Scribe’s Progress
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Canada's Candide
While Calgary wants to govern, Vancouver cultivates its garden.
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A Province Poised for Leadership
Gifted with resources, Alberta moves toward centre stage.
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Demography in the Balance
Is Native population growth on the prairies a positive or negative thing?
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The Trial Coverage on Trial
Between the fawners and the tricoteuses, journalism is found guilty.
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Teenage Mutant Supreme Court Judges
The Canadian copyright debate takes some strange metaphysical turns.
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The Explanation We Never Heard
Six months after attending a controversial Tehran conference, a Canadian professor charges the media and his own university with ignorance and intolerance.
Online Originals
Lincoln’s Prophet
A review of George Fetherling's Walt Whitman’s Secret: A Novel
Untying the Knot
A review of A History of Marriage by Elizabeth Abbott
The Winter of a Hundred Books
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