March 2005

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

March 2005

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]

Illustrations by R.O. Jones

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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Warlords

by Margaret Atwood

To be a warlord—that’s a little boy’s dream everywhere. Point a finger, say Bang, and thousands die.…[more]

Mind Games

Copycat Crimes

by George Emerson

If the music industry can profit from a sneaky, hidden, ridiculous tax, why can’t publishers profit from a tax on paper?…[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]

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]

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]

Imaginings

Catch of the Day

by Leo Furey

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

Security

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]

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]