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Cynthia Brouse's Polyanna Moments

Cynthia Brouse, a Canadian copy-editor, teacher, magazine writer, and winner of the 2009 National Magazine Awards' Outstanding Achievement Award, died of cancer on Saturday, June …

The Art of Personal Space

Nathan Destro and his “personal space protector” on the streets of Johannesburg. Photos by Christo Doherty In New York, bulging sidewalks have led to the …

Sex and the World Cup

Any sports fan will tell you, you can’t win if you can’t score. When it comes to the World Cup, though, getting lucky often involves …

A World Cup Preview

If the stream of car flags hasn’t tipped you off yet, it’s World Cup time again, so get ready for some late night honking. Yep, …

Truce Declared in Maisy Jazz War

When we gave Chantal Braganza's piece on Montreal guitarist Nelson Symonds the headline "When Canadian Jazz was Good," we hoped to attract some attention—but we …

Who are the ‘Real Habs Fans’?

Several media outlets reported this week that the Montreal police have released photos of “looters” caught on camera in the celebration/riot following the Canadiens’ Game …

Arts Funding: It's Not About the Economy, Stupid

I spotted this article from Halifax’s Chronicle Herald on my friend Trevor’s Facebook page earlier this week, talking about cultural funding cuts back in Nova …

Interview with Zab Maboungou

Zab Maboungou founded her contemporary African dance company, Cercle d'Expression Artistique Nyata Nyata, in Montréal in 1986. It was a time when African dance was …

Sad Mag

                    It might seem that there’s not much going on in Vancouver besides drug addiction, homelessness, …

Deng vs. Mao

I wonder what Mao Zedong would have thought of Shenzhen. (From Urbanphoto. Follow DeWolf on Twitter.) Pick up Issue 35 of Maisonneuve for Christopher DeWolf's …

A Lesson for Sunday

A cautionary tale concerning faith from Thomas Conant's Upper Canada Sketches: "During the winter of 1842-3 the Second Adventists, or Millerites, were preaching that the …

Final Push

I'm writing today about a web series some friends of mine made last year called The Bitter End. I wrote a piece about the show …

Notes From a Stranded Publisher

This is, perhaps, why I've never bothered up to now to try and get to the U.K.It has taken me 37 years to make my …