Miscellany Archive

Maisy’s Most-Read Stories of 2011

by Maisonneuve Staff This year, you liked reading about the atomic bomb, Christie Blatchford and feminism. Here are our most popular stories of 2011.

Sacks of pitchblende Concentrate awaiting shipment at Port Radium, Great Bear Lake, 1939.

Presenting: Maisonneuve’s third-annual roundup of our most-read articles and blog posts of the year! A burst of interest on Reddit drove Julie Salverson’s “They Never Told Us These Things,” a thoughtful rumination on disaster and the a-bomb, to the top of the list. Articles about …


Someone Has to Save Us From This

by Kasper Hartman The first-place story from the 2011 Quebec Writing Competition.

Painting by James Benjamin Franklin.

They drove back after dinner. She allowed herself to cry silently in the car because it was dark and he was focused on the road. She had come close many times during the meal, which had dragged painfully into the night.

They stepped into the apartment and kept the lights off. They had lived there …


Kingers

by Gary Leclerc One of two second-place stories from the 2011 Quebec Writing Competition.

Photograph of the Viau Cookie Factory, circa 1967, courtesy of Heritage Montréal.

I grew up in the East End of Montreal, down by the river. Like east ends the world over, it was a poor neighbourhood sandwiched between an army ordnance depot to the west and a huge Johnson & Johnson factory to the east. North of the factory was …


A Photo Examination

by Tijana Stojković One of two second-place stories from the 2011 Quebec Writing Competition.

The first thing I did was scan the photograph. I wanted to blow up some corners, get a good peek inside that black-and-white world where you are sitting, lovely, some fifty years ago. The back of the photo, curled lengthwise, says in purple print stamped by the photo shop: Foto Miniæ. Maturška Banja. Vila Soko. It must have been …


Time’s Up

by Pasha Malla Do you feel old and out-of-touch? Be thankful you’re not a professional athlete.

Illustration by Gérard DuBois.

When I was twelve and falling in love with NBA basketball, its most exciting players were ten to fifteen years older than me. Then five. Then they were my peers. Now players my age are described as either “seasoned” or “washed up.” During a Phoenix Suns game I attended in 2008, as former all-star and …


RiPod

by Alex Manley Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs has died at fifty-six.

Photograph by Matt Buchanan.

I grew up with Macintosh computers, back when they were still called Macintoshes; it seems quaint and old-fashioned, now, that they were named after a fruit. The first Apple computer I used was a desktop, with a black-and-white screen that was taller than it was wide, like a sheet of paper. It’s the only one …


Winter

ISSUE 42 Winter 2011

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also in this issue:

  • Getting Plowed

    by Selena Ross In this exclusive investigative report from Montreal, Maisonneuve exposes the bid-rigging, violence and sabotage at the heart of an unlikely racket: snow removal.
  • In the House of the Lord

    by Andrea Bennett The Jackson Avenue Housing Co-operative and the religious battle raging in one of Canada's poorest neighbourhoods.
  • After Jack

    by Nick Taylor-Vaisey Last May, Jack Layton led the NDP to the greatest victory in party history. Now that he's gone, will the party be able to maintain its momentum?
  • [see full issue contents]