"I mean, we did kind of steal Texas from the Mexicans." "I've never been so hung over in my life." "No thanks, I've raised enough money." "We've ...

Brian Pollard with former NDP leader Jack Layton, from Pollard's campaign Facebook page. In Maisonneuve's current Winter issue, Nick Taylor-Vaisey has a feature called "After ...

Kanzi communicates with Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh using lexigram panels. Photo courtesy of Liz Rubert-Pugh. It's three hours until my flight to Uganda, where I will ...

In Maisonneuve's current Winter issue, Nick Taylor-Vaisey has a feature called "After Jack," a thoughtful assessment of the NDP's rocky past and uncertain future. Over ...

For years, writing fiction, I found it difficult not to feel that I was rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. And yet optimism comes easily ...

Earlier this week, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer wrote a brief blog post titled "A salute to politicians," in which he praised "these politicians who put ...

The neighbourhood around Marconi Avenue is a bit of a strange place. I’m not even sure what to call it. Marooned between Little Italy to ...

The video, if you haven't seen it yet, apparently shows this: municipal workers plowing the streets of Montreal's Villeray neighbourhood before there's even snow on ...

The author, reading some highbrow long-form journalism. Because long-form journalism seems to be undergoing a renaissance these days (or at least we’re told it is; ...

Christopher Hitchens and Kim Jong-Il stand on a cloud. There's some soft harp music and, I dunno, some angels hanging around or something. Christopher Hitchens: ...

Let me tell you what it is to be a man among men. My drink of choice is whiskey, straight-up, with a whiskey back. That's ...

Tomas Tranströmer, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is eighty years old. His right arm has been paralyzed ...

At Court Street and Fourth Place is the Van Westerhout Cittadini Molesi Social Club’s Madonna Addolorata Jesus has risen again on Brooklyn’s Wyckoff Street. His ...

Beijing’s rate of cycling has dropped dramatically over the past two decades, as the economy has developed and more people buy cars. As a result, ...

Occupy Montreal has always seemed different from its sister encampments around North America. Even its French name provides a hint. While "Occupy Wall Street" is, ...

Miranda July at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Nobody really recognized Miranda July when she came outside the Ukrainian Federation. This is strange when you ...

It’s one way to see a city: pick a subway line, any line, and ride to the end. In theory, whatever narrow perceptions you’ve acquired ...

If ‘album of the year’ acclaims were awarded literally—to the album which most sounds like the here and now—Halifax’s Rich Aucoin would be hogging all ...

"It's like seeing Bob Dylan," my friend said as we waited in line to see Joan Didion at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre last week. Didion, who ...

Jane Birkin reclines in an oversized sweater. Patti Smith smiles elusively while Anna Karina swings her hips through a Parisian poolhall. Miranda July stares into ...