Behind Closed Doors
Everyone needs fresh air, but Canadian psychiatric patients can go years without stepping outside.
Article Archive
Perfect Game
One Montrealer is trying to revive a local addiction: snooker.
Stuck in the Mud
For women in tree-planting, gruelling labour is the easy part.
Seeing Red
One man convinced Canadians that Russia was dangerous, and they’ve believed it ever since.
Breaking the Bank
Immigrants have been charged exorbitant fees to send money home, but new technology offers an escape.
Against the Stream
Letting an algorithm pick your music is now second nature, but what gets lost in the flow?
Unprepared
Is PrEP, the drug that prevents HIV, bringing revolution or regression?
In the Weeds
Kaila Jefferd-Moore ignored the headlines about Jody Wilson-Raybould, she explains—they missed the point.
True North (Requires Subscription)
A photo essay.
An Exhibition Concerning the Life and Death of the Blue Whale (Requires Subscription)
New poetry from Rachel Crummey.
Black Water Lilies
Writing from Quebec. Translated by Melissa Bull.
The Spring 2019 Book Room (Requires Subscription)
The Spring 2019 Music Room (Requires Subscription)
The Rides of March
Letter from Montreal.
Instant Classic
After centuries of exclusion from the world of fine wine, the obscurity of Greek grapes is now their selling point.
No Man Lands
Lizzie Chatham explores fictional worlds where women reign.
Recovery Mode
Losing all his photos makes Taylor Lambert wonder if he really needed them in the first place.
Next Year in Krakow
Rebuilding Jewish culture in Poland is no easy task after its near-total erasure, and more than anything it takes imagination.
Distant Relatives
Montrealers came home shattered from state-sponsored brainwashing experiments. Decades later, their families are finally finding each other.
Nuclear Winter
When a Soviet satellite crashed in Canada’s remote north, it was a sign of things to come.
Grave Decisions
Nature Versus Nurture
After giving up motherhood thirty years ago for the sake of the climate, Lorraine Glendenning now asks if it was worth it.
Montroyal (Requires Subscription)
A photo essay.
Bear
New fiction by Lee Maracle.
Two poems
The Homecoming (Requires Subscription)
Writing from Quebec. Translated by Melissa Bull.
The Winter 2018 Book Room (Requires Subscription)
The Winter 2018 Book Room.
The Winter 2018 Music Room (Requires Subscription)
The Winter 2018 Music Room.
Home Ice
Letter from Montreal
Writing on the Wall
Danger Zone
Self-made métis
Oppressive Calm
Crude Tactics
Under Pressure
Art Work (Requires Subscription)
A photo essay.
Vindicated, Viking-style (Requires Subscription)
A new comic by Gabriel Watson.
End of Story
Tremors
New fiction by Emily Davidson.
2 selections from beholden: a poem as long as the river (Requires Subscription)
Excerpts from a poem by Fred Wah.
The Blue Girls of Summer
Cardinal Direction
The Fall 2018 Book Room (Requires Subscription)
The Fall 2018 Book Room.
The Fall 2018 Music Room (Requires Subscription)
The Fall 2018 Music Room.
Notre Dame d’Espace (Requires Subscription)
Letter from Montreal
Matters of the Heart
Generations of people born with heart defects have lived longer than doctors were ready for.
Photos Worth a Thousand Houses
Vancouver photography rises and falls with Vancouver real estate—for better and worse.
Spilt
New fiction from jia qing wilson-yang.
Mutton Curry
New fiction from Sharon Bala.
Off the Rails
Who bought all those Canada 150 train passes? Kate Black spent a week finding out.
