Culture
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Even Pigeons Are Beautiful
I CAN TRACE MY personal descent into what science journalist Ed Yong calls “birder derangement syndrome” back to when I started referring to myself as a “sewage lagoon aficionado.
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September/October 2025
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MY GUILTY PLEASURE
BLAME IT ON my love of language, and blame that on my dad—the “it” being my unhealthy need for the stories of P. G. Wodehouse. The witty, wonderful, meandering, wisecracking tales of Jeeves and Bertie; Empress of Blandings (a prize pig) and her superbly oblivious champion, the ninth Earl; Mr. Mulliner; and the rest. Jeeves, the erudite, infallible, not to mention outrageously loyal valet to Bertram Wooster, the quite undeserving but curiously endearing man about town, is likely the most famous of these characters. But they’re all terrific, I assure you.
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September/October 2025
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When It's All Too Much
What photography teaches me about surviving the news cycle
5 min |
September/October 2025
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Annexation, Eh
The United States badly needs rare minerals and fresh water. Guess who has them?
10 min |
September/October 2025
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We travel to transform ourselves
I grew up in Quebec during the time of the two solitudes, when the French rarely spoke to the English and anglophones could live and work in the province for decades without having to learn a word of French.
4 min |
September/October 2025
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How to Win an 18th-Century Swordfight
Duelling makes a comeback
9 min |
September/October 2025
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Getting Things Right
How Mavis Gallant turned fact into truth
7 min |
June 2025
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Mi Amor
Spanish was the first language I was shown love in. It's shaped my understanding of parenthood
10+ min |
June 2025
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Odd Woman Out
Premier Danielle Smith is on Team Canada —for now
7 min |
June 2025
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My GUILTY PLEASURE
THERE IS NO PLEASURE quite like a piece of gossip blowing in on the wind.
3 min |
June 2025
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Cult of Lies
Conspiracies, murder, and the tragic end to a controversial Jamaican church
10+ min |
June 2025
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We travel for the challenge
Paradise is overrated.
4 min |
June 2025
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Rebels with a Vase
How to buy flowers without destroying the planet
10+ min |
June 2025
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What Counts as Antisemitism?
Jewish Canadians face the challenge of confronting, and defining, hate
10+ min |
June 2025
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Return to Damascus
After fourteen years away, I came back to a home I barely recognized
10+ min |
June 2025
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HOW TO SAVE CANADA
We're going to have to work hard and fast - to avoid becoming Trump's fifty-first state
10+ min |
June 2025
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The Miraculous Return of Khalid from the Dead
TWO MONTHS AFTER the government sent back his identity card in an envelope with no return address, Khalid knocked on his family's door in the wee hours of an early August day.
10+ min |
July/August 2025
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We travel to heal
A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT FROM TORONTO PEARSON AND THE CANADIAN AIRPORTS COUNCIL
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July/August 2025
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Rage against the Publishing Machine
For nearly 30 years, Nova Scotia’s Gaspereau defied the market. Now its owners are moving on, closing the chapter on one of Canada’s most uncompromising publishers
10+ min |
July/August 2025
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Afghanistan's Lost Generation
The Taliban are turning boys’ schools into jihadist training grounds
10+ min |
July/August 2025
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Where Cruelty Is the Point
I've visited Guantánamo 28 times as a reporter. It still defies belief
10+ min |
July/August 2025
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The Green Suit
ROWAN BOUGHT THE green suit right after her miscarriage.
10 min |
July/August 2025
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We Are Where We Shop
The “Buy Canadian” movement goes almost as far back as Confederation
2 min |
July/August 2025
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The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
It’s easier than ever to make music, and harder than ever to make a living from it
10+ min |
July/August 2025
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Cold Shoulder
For one Northern community, the cost of friendship with Trump's America is too high
4 min |
July/August 2025
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Mark Her Words
Forget polite verse Mary Dalton wants you to feel the salt and soil of Newfoundland
6 min |
January/February 2025
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All for Show
Jani Lauzon has maintained she is Métis and her play 1939—now touring Canada—is based on her father’s experience at a residential school. What if none of it is true?
10+ min |
January/February 2025
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My GUILTY PLEASURE
REVISIONS TO this essay have been on my to-do list for weeks.
3 min |
January/February 2025
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LEGAL CHALLENGE
Racialized professors say they were underpaid, bullied, and ignored at one of Canada’s top law schools
10+ min |
January/February 2025
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Circuit Breakers
Inside the Canadian company betting millions on human-like robots
10+ min |