Brian Bethune
Why Moshe Safdie wants Canada to rebuild its sense of adventure
“The public often thinks a building can be functional but ugly as hell. To me, that’s impossible.”
Q&A: Ken Dryden on the Summit Series 50 years later
16 million out of 22 million Canadians tuned in for the final game in the legendary battle between Canada and the USSR
Joshua Whitehead takes on CanLit
In ‘Making Love With the Land,’ Whitehead moves between genres and languages in a series of essays that open up a whole new window on the meaning of Canadian literature
Is it ethical to have kids in the climate crisis?
Researcher Britt Wray grapples with bringing new life into a dying world
Six must-read books for April and May
An ode to Canada’s lost buildings and a memoir by Elamin Abdelmahmoud are among our picks for the best books of the season
Emily St. John Mandel can’t stop writing about pandemics
Her novel Station Eleven imagined a world ravaged by a pandemic long before COVID-19 existed. Now, she’s gone through one herself.
Why the working class embraced right-wing populism
Can the left win them back?
Six books to read this spring
A novel by the creator of ‘Little Mosque on the Prairie’ and an inside look at the race to develop the COVID vaccine are among our picks for the best reads of the spring
The key to survival: Find five people. Hold them close.
Close relationships—about five of them—are as essential as food and water, according to this author
The search for Anne Frank’s betrayer
Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan’s new book describes the six-year investigation into how the Nazis learned about the Amsterdam annex where the Frank family hid during WWII
Was Jan. 6 the beginning of the end for America?
A new book imagines what the next American civil war will look like, beginning with the 2021 Capitol riots
How the most connected man in Toronto came back from death
Bob Ramsay’s memoir explains how he survived a brush with death–for love