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Sweep Stakes

The subtleties of geopolitics

Black Power in Montreal

The ideas, leaders and pain behind the Sir George Williams riot

Issues

July | August 2025

Derek Abella is a Cuban American illustrator and artist based in New York City. He creates dreamlike work for clients all over the world, including the “New York Times,” “The New Yorker,” “The Atlantic,” “Vanity Fair,” Delta Airlines, and Nike.

Meal Plan

My first twenty years in Canada

Kyle Wyatt

Sketch and the City

The Muddy York that could

Christopher Hume

Interior Designs

The bitter fruits of Okanagan development

Kelvin Browne

The Ace

A Jewish war hero

J.L. Granatstein

Doctor Who?

Taking the Château Frontenac to court

Graham Fraser

Sting Operation

The history of an anglophone university

Noah Ciubotaru

McClueless

A hamburger magnate comes to town

David Macfarlane

Check It Out

At the summit of global e-commerce

Gilbert Reid

Please, Sir?

Mark Kingwell is just asking

Irina Dumitrescu

Need Not Apply

Diversity, debate, and the demise of liberalism

Jeffrey Simpson

Shadow Boxing

On the dark magic of self-acceptance

Stacey May Fowles

Old Sport

Peter Unwin finds connection

J.D.M. Stewart

Ripple Effect

Coming to terms with a father’s absence

Ruth Panofsky

Stand-Up Guy

And he would paddle 1,200 miles

Jude Isabella

Raw Material

History on the half shell

J.R. Patterson

Goes to Show

A Joyce Wieland retrospective

Keith Garebian

Descent into Hell

Lorna Goodison wrestles with Dante

Randy Boyagoda

Formative Years

Coming of age in Indigenous Canada

Ian Canon

Jersey Boys

For king or country?

Emily Mernin

Drive to Survive

Rob Benvie’s rueful and ruminative tale

John Casey

While He Wrote

Martha Bátiz tells an untold story

Lara El Mekaui

Not Read in a Day

My time with Edward Gibbon

Pablo Strauss