Articles in Ideas


April 2010

Citizen Saul

Writer, literary activist, public intellectual, John Ralston Saul is, not accidentally, both a man of the world and an articulate proponent of values he thinks are quintessentially Canadian


January 2007

Imagining the Future

Why the cynics are wrong


November 2004

Life, at What Price?

Canada does not have universal health care, but it could. The secret might lie in the Oregon experiment, a radical and life-promoting solution

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Sink or Swim
Sink or Swim
by Katharine Dunn | SEPTEMBER 2008
Pierre Lafontaine’s bid to revive Swimming Canada

Water Torture
Water Torture
by Emma Ruby-Sachs | MARCH 2005
soweto—“Shoot the may-or, the may-or, the may-or! I shot the may-or, the may-or, the may-or!”