From the archives

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Amanda Perry

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

Sujit Choudhry

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Stephen Marche

You Would Think

A poem

Gerard Beirne

Gerard Beirne is an Irish writer who has lived in Canada for more than ten years, and served as writer‐in‐residence at the University of New Brunswick for 2008/09. His collection of poems Digging My Own Grave (Dedalus Press, 1997) won second prize in the Patrick Kavanagh Award. His novel The Eskimo in the Net (Marion Boyars Publishers, 2003) was short listed for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. His story Sightings of Bono was adapted into a short film featuring Bono.