Articles

AMERICANS MADE ME DO IT

By Myrna Kostash | November 12, 2002

Myrna Kostash revisits an article about SDS in Boston around 1972 and discovers that it was about how she was about to become a Canadian

What happened to Halloween?

By Max Fawcett | November 8, 2002

Max Fawcett explores the implications of a Halloween without rotten eggs and roman candles.

On The Rewards of Plagiarism

By Ryan Knighton | November 5, 2002

Ryan Knighton wonders if college-level plagiarism might not be presenting a societal morality

Making Sour Soup

By Brian Fawcett | November 1, 2002

Brian Fawcett watches some alleged educational television with his daughter

The Road to Jedwabne

By Jonathan Garfinkel | October 25, 2002

Jonathan Garfinkel makes an extraordinarily thoughtful journey to the site of one of World War II’s most perplexing massacres

Taslima and Salman: A Fatwa With a Difference

By Jacqueline Swartz | October 18, 2002

Jacqueline Swartz outlines some differences in the fatwas against Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin. Nasrin appeared at Toronto’s Harbourfront Writers Festival in late October

A Short Trip Inside Mark Valentine’s World

By Brian Fawcett | October 15, 2002

Brian Fawcett goes to the asset auction for Thompson Kernahan

Urban Lifestyle Bikers, and Other Strange Sights to See

By Wally Hourback | October 1, 2002

Our correspondent from North Bay drives down to deliver a few insights, and a motor vehicle sighting

On Psychopathy TM

By Ryan Knighton | September 27, 2002

Ryan Knighton raises the possibility that corporate manipulation of the cybersphere is creating a new kind of psychopath

Jean Chretien’s Moment of Truth

By Brian Fawcett | September 26, 2002

Brian Fawcett has an instinct about the Prime Minister