Podcasts

In Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Michael Cera is the ultimate Canadian superhero

Canada used to have a vibrant critical culture. What happened?

Is our national anthem worthy of true patriot love?

Is the Canadian military prepared for the mental health consequences of our deadliest conflict since the Korean War?

Battered by controversy, the director of the National Gallery of Canada goes art shopping in Holland

How one African country emerged intact from its post-colonial struggles

There’s something disturbing about the overwhelming happiness of Canada’s teenagers

Vincenzo Natali’s new film re-engineers the Cronenberg tradition

Will the G-20 stumble under its own weight?

Yann Martel and the Holocaust Novel

A lifelong fan finds himself at hockey games in America’s sunbelt, and understands for the first time the consequences of the nhl’s expansion south. The game we think is ours... isn’t

Canadian foreign policy has become a mishmash of conflicting priorities and half-baked initiatives. Can it be fixed?

How Jamie Lee Hamilton changed the way we look at Canada’s underclass

For Diamond+Schmitt, winning an international competition to design a cultural centre in St. Petersburg was a blessing and a curse

Greetings from twenty-first-century Europe, where new ideas, new technologies, and better ways of living are flourishing

At eighty, Christopher Plummer, who’s spent most of his life outside the country, is still a Canadian icon

At eighty, Christopher Plummer, who’s spent most of his life outside the country, is still a Canadian icon

What happens when political debates escalate into a culture of arguments, attack ads, and anonymous Internet assaults? A Parliament effectively shut — and shouted — down

How Canada’s fertility laws are failing donors, doctors, and parents

Writer, literary activist, public intellectual, John Ralston Saul is, not accidentally, both a man of the world and an articulate proponent of values he thinks are quintessentially Canadian