A former premier argues that Canada must return to its nation-building roots
Cities are the bloated elephants in Stephen Harper’s Cabinet room. Will he have the courage to look them in the eye?
Has the dream of freedom and opportunity declined into a hopeless pathology?
Society | by Mark Kingwell
Once pure fantasy, the comic book has become
a powerful way of portraying reality
Books | by Lea Zeltserman
The June 2006 cover image is from a photo essay, recounting the cross-Canada trip of a photographer and his brother after their mother’s death
Travel | by Jaret Belliveau
Could the United States’ Arabists provide an exit strategy from Iraq?
Japan
An indigenous community grapples with a mysterious ailment
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay on his elegies for a lost natural self
Detail | by Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
If you can’t beat ‘em, bite ‘em
Anselm Kiefer’s Heaven and Earth
Art | by Daniel Baird
Everybody does it, and perhaps they should
Caustic, excessive, self-loathing French author Michel Houellebecq skewers Western civilization
Books | by Randy Boyagoda
Pakistan
Germany
