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A monument to lanyards, made by a committee

There was a time in this country when you could legitimately lose your job if your employer received the slightest hint that you may be gay.

Life after butter

or how constraints can turn you into a gourmet

Oh Giller. We need to talk. Again.

Dear people who run Giller:

Save the date for the end of journalism

The untimely questions that nag

It’s funny how things rhyme sometimes.

How to be lonely at two opposite ends of the British empire

Would Janet Frame and Margaret Laurence have known of each other?

Are we the baddies? With classicist Jack Mitchell on Nolan's The Odyssey

The ins and outs, the twists and turns

Up and down the CN tower

July Notebook

Slow down. Take the train.

Pamela Mulloy on what's happening in fiction - and on railway tracks

Re-reading Canadiana: Lucy Maud Montgomery

The hilly residential road off South Kingsway is the highest point before the ground plumets down to the Humber River.

The gamble will crash

...but, if we're lucky, a few good lobbies will remain