September 2011

Is Public Service Delivery Obsolete?

Why competition between civil servants, corporations, and non-profits is good for everyone

No CANDU

Would a Canadian reactor have staved off the Fukushima nuclear disaster?

I’m Right, You’re Wrong

The insidious pleasure of conspiracy theory

Quebec's Eternal Hero

How a sports icon came to symbolize the entire province

Finding Our Reflection

From Harold Innis and George Grant to Ursula Franklin, Canadian thinkers have pondered the technologies that help hold the country together

Bard Versus Bard

Shakespeare changed the world, but he was no revolutionary—sexual or otherwise

On the Gurney

Two health system insiders go under the knife.

Tantalizing Ambiguity

Could science be more creative if it were less sure of itself?

Stars, Beneath

Katherine

Strange Things Done in the Midnight Sun

The borderline between myth and reality in Canada’s North

Hidden Stories

In an uncompromising novel, post-war Lithuania receives its due

Showdown in Ottawa

A blow-by-blow account of the struggle to patriate the Canadian constitution

Shop Girl Blues

A journalist tries selling for a living and lives to write about it

Cold War, Bright Stars

Driven by military spending, Canada took a lead role in the early space race

Yorkville State of Mind

The place may have changed, but the vision lingers on