Back Issues
October 2014
Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Oleg Portnoy.
Oleg Portnoy is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer from Toronto. His illustrations have received recognition from American Illustration, Society of Illustrators West, 3X3 Illustration, CMYK Magazine and Creative Quarterly.
Weathering the Storm
The Canada Council’s director for the past eight years looks back at troubled times for the arts
Robert Sirman
Of Music and Espionage
The man who played the theremin for Lenin is the unlikely hero of Sean Michaels’s first novel
Mark FrutkinThe (Other) October Crisis
A new book revisits one of Canada’s most traumatic and telling moments
Andrea LawlorThe Limits of the TRC
Indispensably valuable for the tellers, but largely isolated from broader Canadian society
Michael Morden
Climbing Down from Vimy Ridge
One of Canada’s leading historians makes a different case for military success
Adam ChapnickWhen Multiculturalism Fell into the Sea
A fictional psychologist attempts to heal the trauma of the Indo-Canadian community
Ava Homa
A Larger Role for Unions
Organized labour may be shrinking but the rhetoric is still upbeat
Frances WoolleyThe Boss-Employee Two-Step
When workers help run the company, things often turn out well
Peter MacLeod
The Clever Science of Commerce
How a fur monopoly explained North America to the world
Stephen R. Bown