Eleven candlesWe gathered a year ago at a pub off King St. that Jake Richler used to like, though it never did much for me. This wasn’t the...
CBC’s stand-up actTwo hours of frantic kineticism is exhausting, but the good outweighs the bad in the relaunch of CBC news
Then they built Evan’s set. And it was HUGEThe new CBC politics web portal has at least one familiar face, and a lot of zippy features, including a time-lapse look at the...
David Akin, bane of Canadian LiberalismThe Canwest reporter (ah- ha! ) finds one federal infrastructure program that disproportionately benefits NDP and Liberal ridings...
How Canada’s seen: I try not to think about it, but fail.Fretting about how Canada is seen by Americans is a mostly pointless and entirely maddening pastime and I try, I honestly try, not...
Thinkers’ conferenceAt a time when we may be witnessing a key moment in the reworking of the global higher education and research landscape, now would...
Different numbersThe government releases a partial accounting of stimulus spending to support its particular case, laments that the official...
What happenedAnd if you’re still interested after all that, here is the magazine story in question, now online in its entirety. Much of what...
Hey look: a column, and a debate about what it says, if anythingFrom the print edition, this week’s column , which is about Stephen Harper’s surprise reference to the Supreme Court of Canada on...
Hillier on Afghanistan troop training "schemes" that "lack credibility"This week’s issue of Maclean’s (on newsstands today—get ’em while they’re hot) features Kate Fillion’s interview with Gen. Rick...