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One Explosive Situation

An industry that writes its own rules leaves us all at risk

Starchitect Saga

Two accounts chart the emergence of Frank Gehry’s genius

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Issues

December 2025

December 2025 front cover by Dave Murray.
Dave Murray has done work for Canada Post, the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, and the FIFA World Cup, as well as for the “New York Times,” the “Washington Post,” the “Wall Street Journal,” and “Variety.” He also contributes often to these pages.

Touched Us All

A baseball season to remember

Kyle Wyatt

How Vain an Attempt

When the Americans came marching in

Tim Cook

For the Record

Brian Stewart reports back

Geoff White

Binding Ambitions

Scott McIntyre’s life in books

Joyce Wayne

The Body Intervenes

Kathy Page recalibrates her future

Charlotte Gray

Dire Straits

Two authors read the warning signs

John Baglow

Claws and Effect

Consider the state of the lobster fishery

Brad Dunne

Good Cop, No Cop?

Sandy Hudson calls for change

Noel Ransome

Building Blocks

Won’t you be my neighbour?

Frances Bula

Stop the Presses!

When no news is good news

Ira Basen

Workshopped

Strange Arctic creatures and where to find them

David Venn

Stem Education

Toward harmonious arrangements

Jason Wang

Inflection Points

What we make in the moments that make us

John Lorinc

Dark and Stormy

John Newlove didn’t forget to write

Allan Hepburn

Triangle of Sadness

Ian Williams returns to the novel

Russell Smith

I, Chimera

Myriam Ouellette descends into the world of the sick

Amanda Perry

Pulpit Fiction

Linda McQuaig starts making things up

David Marks Shribman

The Imposter

David Bergen goes in for the kill

Rod Moody-Corbett

Lessons

A haunting debut by Marc Bendavid

André Forget

Unwrapped

It’s beginning to look a lot like Dickens

Alexander Sallas