Melting Pot
Letter from Montreal.
Letter from Montreal.
Reckoning with a homegrown hell showed that turning around emissions can also mean turning a profit.
It’s hard to live low-carbon, especially when you feel like you’re the only one. Kate Black meets a Calgary misfit who keeps trying to fit in.
Canadians are scared of losing the life they know, Inuit leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier writes. Maybe looking north will help.
In wildfire-ravaged BC, Rachel Jansen learns to keep up with the relentless rules of mushroom-hunting.
A longtime science reporter reviews the ways we’ve tried, and failed, to convey the looming climate crisis.
Toronto condos won’t seem so hot in a few decades—except in the literal sense. Here’s a guide for househunting for the end times.
New fiction by Christopher Evans.
New poetry from Mikko Harvey.
Writing from Quebec. Translated by Melissa Bull.
New fiction from Jowita Bydlowska.
Everyone needs fresh air, but Canadian psychiatric patients can go years without stepping outside.
One Montrealer is trying to revive a local addiction: snooker.
For women in tree-planting, gruelling labour is the easy part.
One man convinced Canadians that Russia was dangerous, and they’ve believed it ever since.
Immigrants have been charged exorbitant fees to send money home, but new technology offers an escape.
Letting an algorithm pick your music is now second nature, but what gets lost in the flow?
Is PrEP, the drug that prevents HIV, bringing revolution or regression?
Kaila Jefferd-Moore ignored the headlines about Jody Wilson-Raybould, she explains—they missed the point.
A photo essay.
New poetry from Rachel Crummey.
Writing from Quebec. Translated by Melissa Bull.
Letter from Montreal.
After centuries of exclusion from the world of fine wine, the obscurity of Greek grapes is now their selling point.
Lizzie Chatham explores fictional worlds where women reign.
Losing all his photos makes Taylor Lambert wonder if he really needed them in the first place.
Rebuilding Jewish culture in Poland is no easy task after its near-total erasure, and more than anything it takes imagination.
Montrealers came home shattered from state-sponsored brainwashing experiments. Decades later, their families are finally finding each other.
When a Soviet satellite crashed in Canada’s remote north, it was a sign of things to come.
After giving up motherhood thirty years ago for the sake of the climate, Lorraine Glendenning now asks if it was worth it.
A photo essay.
New fiction by Lee Maracle.
Writing from Quebec. Translated by Melissa Bull.
The Winter 2018 Book Room.
The Winter 2018 Music Room.
Letter from Montreal