Jacob Scheier
Paper Towns
Adaptation of John Green novel about high school love and obsession is understated and quietly moving more
Jul 24, 2015 3:48 PM Reviews
A paranoid Canadian in Donald Trump's America
Can calling me a crazy kike now be considered within the bounds of social norms? Wouldn’t that be the patriotic thing to do? more
Nov 11, 2016 10:12 AM News 2 Comments
Jacob Scheier
At Republican National Convention, friendly racists astound
Mainstream media have been trying for months to unpack the psyche of Trump supporters – nearly every person I spoke with was on the one hand very friendly, and on the other really damn racist. more
Jul 24, 2016 10:46 PM News 5 Comments
Ben Spurr
The Ghomeshi effect
For some victims of violence, social media is becoming the place to find community justice outside the courts more
Dec 3, 2014 6:00 PM News 1 Comments
CanLit's continuum of abuse
Learning that men I've shared the same stage with and chatted with at readings have acted in abusive ways toward women is difficult to hear more
Nov 2, 2014 8:28 AM News
Zach Ruiter
Putting on the pressure for peace
Prominent figures support the movement, but is boycotting Israel really the key to ending the crisis in Gaza? more
Aug 7, 2014 12:00 AM News
If looks could kill
The attitudes Elliot Rodger expressed about women are extreme, but his sense of male entitlement to women's bodies is not just something he got from pick-up artists' websites more
Jul 10, 2014 12:00 AM News
Kathryn Gaitens
The trouble with Woody Allen
Nothing will change if we don't respond to allegations of abuse made by the vulnerable against the powerful more
Feb 10, 2014 11:13 AM News
No Christian conversion
I could almost hear my Marxist Jewish grandfather's ghostly whisper: “Hey, mashugana, what the fuck are you doing? more
Dec 19, 2013 12:00 AM News
Grave thoughts
Drinking coffee and chatting about the last thing most of us want to talk about more
Aug 29, 2013 12:00 AM News
Jacob Scheier
Queens Quay road test
I wouldn't mind construction taking twice as long if bike lanes could remain usable more
Aug 15, 2013 12:00 AM News
R. Jeanette Martin
Quebec protests: Not so Grand Prix
Playing cat and mouse with cops all F1 weekend turns out to be a giant bore more
Jun 14, 2012 12:00 AM News
Hostility and the Montreal protests
The casseroles present an alternative to the pepper-spraying police more
Jun 11, 2012 12:09 AM News
"Maplespreading" Quebec's student protests
Stretching the fight for access to education across Canada more
Jun 6, 2012 12:39 AM News
Giller gossip
Controversy around the Gillers is for the media, not the writers more
Nov 17, 2010 12:13 AM Art & Books
Jacob Scheier
Satire lost in the Sanity
Jon Stewart's Rally To Restore Sanity played it safe in the midst of political illogic more
Nov 4, 2010 12:00 AM News
