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Country Music

Please stand and remove your cynicism

John Allemang

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Barbara Yaffe

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Naoko Asano
Back Issues

March 2016

Karen Hibbard Karen Hibbard is a freelance illustrator with experience in print, multimedia, film and animation. She draws on a 25-year career as a visual artist and an MFA from Concordia University. She teaches at the University of Victoria.

Beneath the Surface

Diving into our obsession with dolphins.

Andrew Westoll

A Strangely Obtuse Country

A diary of a public culture maker

Charlotte Gray

Green Enigma

Trying to make sense of current prospects for the environment.

Andrew Heintzman

Generation A

How disenchanted Arab youth are fuelling a regional transformation

Rouba Al-Fattal

Delicate Places

Rewriting development aims to take account of the risks of fragility.

Elissa Golberg

Cracked

Placing the Ford mayoralty in long-term perspective

Michael Booth

False Essay

A poem

Brian Henderson

Hungry and Angry

Body size is the theme of Mona Awad’s powerful first novel

Brett Josef Grubisic

Sex, Death and Tourism

Two narrators tell intersecting stories in Farzana Doctor’s novel.

Rashi Khilnani

Cruelty at Mealtime

Exploring the realities of factory farming for Canadians.

Don LePan

Dramatis Personae

The players in our historical drama

Mark Starowicz

Due South

Are Canada’s constitutional values becoming more American?

Emmett Macfarlane

Queen's Park Dad

A former Ontario premier looks back at his years in office.

Steve Paikin

Unfinished Business

A British Columbia writer exorcises ghosts from her family’s past

Stephen Reid