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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Giovanna Riccio

Giovanna Riccio has published three books of poetry, including Plastic’s Republic.

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Tongue and Groove

On language and translation January | February 2026
In her essay “Theorizing Feminist Discourse/Translation,” from 1989, the Canadian critic Barbara Godard reframed translation as a feminist intervention into society’s dominant discourses. With The Translating Subject, Melissa Tanti expands on this idea as she examines how a “translating subject” emerges from the space where “languages encounter each other.” Analyzing works by the Montreal writers Erín Moure and Nicole Brossard along with the American punk virtuoso Kathy…