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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
I am generation MuchMusic. How could I not be? I came of age in the late 1990s CanRock boom, an era where bands like The …
Yann Martel was kind enough to talk with me about his new novel, Beatrice & Virgil. Although it isn’t as easy a read as his …
The Trotsky is everything you've been promised. It's a weird, geeky, sweet comedy. It's got Jay Baruchel at his nerdy best. And it manages to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
It might seem that there’s not much going on in Vancouver besides drug addiction, homelessness, …
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 few years ago, I was given a book about women who'd lost their mums. My dad’s girlfriend lost her mother to cancer, and Motherless …
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 …
I Deal Coffee The Communal Mule I was looking forward to spending three days in Toronto last year: good food, fun times with friends I …
If you’re at all like me, you probably didn’t blink an eye when it was announced that the New York Times was going to host …
When any syndicated critic calls a film “morally reprehensible,” it ends up as a kind of reverse-endorsement, the sort of thing you have to pay …
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 …
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 …