After going to a faith healer, Dominik Parisien could see magical thinking all around him—and who it hurt.

How far would you go for your friends? On a canoe trip along the Ottawa River, Nathan Munn dives deep for the answers.

New music from Sea Oleena, LAL, Night Lunch and Matthew Cardinal.

We keep asking who killed the electric car. But as time runs out, a more important question looms: who will bring it back?

After moving back home to the States, Kelli Maria Korducki tries to settle into the feeling of never being settled.

New poetry from Phoebe Wang.

We've always known films bring us together. This year, many of us realized that they're good for the lonely times, too.

In this year of losses, Fatima Syed writes, let’s not add one more—our ability to care.

Fall reads from Justin Ling, Marlowe Granados, Marc Herman Lynch and others.

Usually, saying you'd rather eat glass is just an expression. Things are changing, Ziya Jones reports.

Letter from Montreal.

After years of using face-altering photo filters, Houda Kerkadi sees the bigger picture.

Small family farms are disappearing, but not for the reasons people tend to think. As investors rush in, farmers can’t hold on to their land.

The authors of As We Have Always Done and Policing Black Lives talk about writing on their own terms.

Streams gushed freely through cities­—until they were seen as a nuisance. Now, we need them back.

Ironically, Alberta is the perfect place for a Green New Deal.

It took years for journalist Jody Porter to see that writing about other people’s pain can be a way of hiding from your own.

As going into the real world loses its appeal for Chloë Lalonde, a new game brings life's mundane routines to her screen.

As an adult, Montrealer Christine Estima discovered a buried truth about her family—and her city and country.

New poetry from Tess Liem.

New music from DijahSB, Thanya Iyer, New Fries and Ora Cogan.

Politicians have whittled down public health care for years. While caring for his dad, Ryan David Allen learned who picks up the slack.

Letter from Montreal.

New poetry from Shazia Hafiz Ramji.

New fiction from Heather O'Neill.

In a pandemic, following the rules is an act of love. But the HIV crisis taught Stephanie Nolen that overlooking them can be, too.

Letter from Montreal.

Summer reads from Saleema Nawaz, Walter Scott, Madhur Anand, Eva Crocker and others.

When you’re sheltering in place, shopping doesn’t make much sense. So why is it so hard to stop doing it?

Holed up, Suzannah Showler asks what we really owe the outside world.

A photo essay.

A pesky meme keeps saying Montreal’s overhyped. Is it right?

Writing from Quebec. Translated by Melissa Bull.

There’s such a thing as a solitary artistic genius—and Donovan Woods remembered this spring why he wouldn’t want to be one.

Apocalyptic novels used to be fun, Kevin Chong knows, but writers of the future will have to get their own literary devices.

The city only seems empty until you start walking around. Kasia van Schaik learns to appreciate it from the outside looking in.

How did we end up with a farming system that endangers both its workers and the people it feeds? Experts say this is Canada’s Gordian knot, but Francesca Bianco tries to unravel it anyway.

New music from Markus Floats, Pantayo, Basia Bulat and Carly Rae Jepsen.

Wrestling is famous for its outrageousness. It takes a special kind of fan to get bored with the mainstream.

New poetry from Andrew Faulkner.

New poetry from Tara McGowan-Ross.

A photo essay.

Jasmine Irwin went to rural Quebec for adult summer camp and learned that French immersion is not for the weak.

This isn’t your parents’ separatism, Nora Loreto writes—except in a way, it is.

New fiction by H Felix Chau Bradley.

New poetry from Natalie Lim.

Secularism supposedly only limits public life, but hundreds of thousands of Quebecers know it’s not that simple.

China is attempting a modern-day genocide, but Uyghurs living in Canada won’t let their culture be erased.

New fiction from Spencer Lucas Oakes.