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That Ever Governed Frenzy

Through the eyes of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Michael Wernick

Jeffrey Simpson

Rumble on Parliament Hill

In the ring with Justin Trudeau

Curtis Gillespie

Return of the Robber Barons

Chrystia Freeland asks if we can tell “makers” from “takers” among the new super-rich

Donald J. Johnston
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October 2024

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Illustration by David Parkins.

Words on the Street

The stories our place names tell

Kyle Wyatt

Cruel Summer

An iconic town in the line of fire

Amanda Perry

On Familiar Spirits

A senator warns against another witch hunt

Yuen Pau Woo

Agent Orange

Two takes on the state of democracy

Andrew Torry

Regulate and Chill

It’s full stream ahead for Bill C-11

Alexander Sallas

Those Ancient Lands

Where and when did this conflict begin?

John Lorinc

Of Humble Origins

The glitz and glam of a grassroots movement

Paul W. Bennett

Fortunes and Funnel Cakes

What Patty Conklin created

Kyle Wyatt

A Northern Light

The life and times of Martha Black

Michael Taube
Illustration for review of The Phelan Feud: The Bitter Struggle for Control of a Great Canadian Food Empire by Stephen Kimber

Food Fight

When a mogul rewrote his will

Kelvin Browne

The Middle

Essays on fragmented identity

Ayah Victoria McKhail

French Connections

One writer’s indulgent detour

Tara Henley

Waxing Poetic

Charles Taylor searches for meaning

Michael Ledger-Lomas

Another Round

Michael Lista returns to poetry

John Baglow

For Art’s Sake

Heather O’Neill imagines a war-torn world

David Staines

On the Hunt

Rod Moody-Corbett’s remarkable debut

Emily Mernin

The Young Man and the Spree

When Hemingway was dispatched to Kingston

Sharon Hamilton

Three’s a Crowd

Leanne Toshiko Simpson turns to fiction

Kayla Penteliuk

Captured

John Delacourt’s latest political thriller

Gilbert Reid

Paw Print

Tammy Armstrong blurs fact and fiction

Rohan Maitzen

The Portrait of a Reader

On a first-name basis

Isabel Huggan