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Brian Fawcett on how to make Euclid Avenue Tomato Sauce. Everything you need to know to get it right.
Read MoreKen Belford’s selected poems, “The Answer to Everything.” Or, as reviewers Vivien Lougheed and John Harris suggest, “the answer to some things (and not others).”
Read MoreStan Persky reflects on the ex-prez’s Jan. 6 coup attempt, and the danger that the “next coup” poses to democracy in a post-truth era.
Read MoreIn mid-January of this year, 2021, Gerard Farry died in Vancouver at the age of 92. He wasn’t the sort of man who’d naturally be familiar to the readers of this website; he had been the director of urban planning for Greater Vancouver during the 1970s and 1980s, which was the heyday of urban master…
Read MoreMichael Boughn on quitting cigarettes, and quitting Facebook. Compare and contrast.
Read MoreIn his article “Speaking Out” (The Walrus, June 2019), Toronto-based 30-something freelance contrarian John Semley tells the story of the Wilfred Laurier University (WLU) teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd, who made international headlines when she was censured by a University examining committee for allegedly creating an unsafe learning environment for transgender students. The committee…
Read MoreMax Fawcett searches for the prophet of atheism.
Read MoreJohn Harris posts a slightly argumentative view on the Statue Wars controversy
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