March 2005

"Art is the highest expression of an interior and unconscious arithmetic"
- G.W. Leibniz

March 2005

Coalition of the Sort-of Willing Canada Iraq Police

by Martin Patriquin

On a US base in Jordan, Canadian cops are training new Iraqi police officers for an impossible assignment…[more]

Business

Open for Business

by Madelaine Drohan

How international corporations are exploiting our nation’s positive image with little more than a postal box…[more]

Politics

Nanny Abuse

by Susan McClelland

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A Mennonite’s Kill Zone

by David Bergen

winnipeg—We live in Wolseley, a granola-belt neighbourhood. We are surrounded by tree huggers. We’ve got…[more]

Meditation

String Theory

by Deborah Kirshner

As a classical violinist I have learned, over many years, that great music performances are more than a matter of physics and technique.…[more]

Field Notes

Life of Brian

by Craig Taylor

london—Brian Haw and I spent the night together back in September 2002. I had a sleeping bag, which I unrolled…[more]

Detail

Crazy Life

by Carol Rama

Italian artist Carol Rama, now 86, has been controversial since 1945…[more]

Television

All’s Well That Ends

by Jeremy Keehn

As The Newsroom enters its final season (again), Ken Finkleman faces his last temptation: being nice.…[more]

Books

The Bonfire is Out

by Charles Foran

books by tom wolfe discussed in this essay: I Am Charlotte Simmons HarperCollins (2004) 676 pp.,…[more]

Field Notes

Home Away From Home in DC

by Kyle Stone

washington—When I first moved to Toronto from the United States in the early 1990s, I loved watching local…[more]

Politics

Continentalism of a Different Stripe

by Jeremy Rifkin

Are Canadian provinces and the blue states in the U.S. quietly forging a radical new North American Union ? This American says, “Yes.”…[more]

Imaginings

Catch of the Day

by Leo Furey

Who needs cod? Newfoundlanders troll the seas for treasures of a different kind.…[more]

Meditation

Masked Avenger

by Andrew Mitrovica

Meet “John Holloway,” former clown, trucker, drug addict, high-paid crime fighter, serious adrenalin junkie, and—for now—retired undercover agent.…[more]

Poetry

Le Nom De L’Anonyme

by Nathalie Stephens

The sky opens it always does. From here to the lake the freshly born birds fall pink onto the streets from all the standing trees. I open my arms to…[more]