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The Envoy

Mark Carney has a plan

Jeff Costen

Bubble Weary in Trump's America

A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation

Padma Viswanathan

On Familiar Spirits

A senator warns against another witch hunt

Yuen Pau Woo
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A Little Sincerity

A note from the editor-in-chief

Sarmishta Subramanian

CanLit’s Comedy Problem

Pardon My Parka, and other humorous Canadian initiatives

Pasha Malla

Is the Male Libido Really to Blame?

Sex, power, and #MeToo

Andy Lamey

Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in conversation with Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

The Child As Organizational Colleague

Lessons learn from the “Tiny anarchic guerrillas” in our midst

Ian Garrick Mason

The Other Side of “Irish Eyes”

Brian Mulroney abroad and at home

Martin Patriquin

An Iconoclast Protests

A grand parable of modern scapegoating

Mark Fried

The Mother as Spider

Being a woman and an artist in the world

Kate Taylor

Sisterhood of the Secret Pantaloons

Suffragists and their descendants

Susan Whitney

The Americanization of Oscar Wilde

The early days of a modern celebrity

Gregory Mackie

Scenes from a Marriage

One woman's life in Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia

Donna Bailey Nurse

The Oil Stays in the Picture

The tar sands and a war of images

Brian Jacobson