Rob Ford with a puppet. Photograph by Shaun Merritt.For many downtowners, streaming Doug Ford’s Global News interview on their laptops, the thin gold ...

The 2012 Quebec student strike. Photograph by David Vilder. The right to demonstrate means little to me. As the recent mass arrests under the controversial ...

When the stretch of Ste. Catherine Street in Montreal’s Gay Village was pedestrianized for two and a half months in the summer of 2008 ...

Spoiler alert: Unlike much of what I write about on this blog, video games do benefit from not knowing certain details. That said, it’s ...

There are not many writers who earned their way into the Academy of American Arts and Letters on the strength of salty volumes like The ...

It says 4:09:44 on the digital clock hanging above the finish line. That’s a good time for a marathon. It’s a ...

When I was growing up in the nineties, no one on my favourite shows ever looked like me. Clarissa may have explained it all, but ...

A baggage yak, from T.E. Gordon's 1876 book Roof of the World. I used to spend entire days on Greyhound buses, criss-crossing the ...

The former Jean-Talon railway station in Montreal's Parc Extension neighbourhood. Gentrification is a curious beast. At its roots, it’s an economic process, with ...

Roger Ebert and his wife Chaz Hammel-Smith give the thumbs-ups to Nancy Kwan at the Hawaii International Film Festival on October 20, 2010. Photograph by ...

Walking the length of Vancouver’s Seawall is a lesson in design fads and fashions. The Stanley Park stretch dates back to 1914 and is ...

Dr. Tahir ul-Qadri speaks at a conference in 2011. Photograph by Servingislam. In late December 2012, an obscure religious scholar and humanitarian took the stage ...

Last week, the creators behind Veronica Mars, the short-lived but beloved television show that aired on UPN/the CW between 2004 and 2007, made internet ...

Illustration by Yarek Waszul. Two years ago, the US National Archives started using Tumblr to publish photos and other historical documents that are now being ...

Will Sunday night's Academy Award win for Best Picture reframe the conversation around Argo? Or is the film doomed to polarize viewers indefinitely? Since ...