Stephen Marche, in his citizens’ guide to the War of 1812, remembers that time we beat the Americans; Richard Poplak argues why soccer should be our national sport; Sasha Chapman asks whether a Canadian super-foodie can save American cuisine; Jen Gerson profiles Danielle Smith, Alberta’s bluest Tory; Maryam Sanati questions Gen Y’s use and abuse of Internet self-promotion; poetry by Leonard Cohen, A.F. Moritz, and Steven Heighton; and more
Available on national newsstands on January 30
With impending doom looming anew, Daniel Baird ponders our appetite for retribution; Charlotte Gray profiles David Johnston, Canada’s twenty-eighth Governor General; Don Gillmor reconstructs the invention of Waterloo as a high-tech powerhouse; Sara Angel studies Jack Chambers’ unfinished masterpiece; Emily Landau reviews Douglas Coupland’s adults-only kidlit; new fiction by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer; poetry by David O’Meara and Damian Rogers; and more
