LILY WAS 11 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE CAUGHT the volleyball bug. It was the summer of 2020, mid-pandemic, and she and her best friend had found an old volleyball in their east-end Toronto neighbourhood. They bumped it back and forth for hours at the...
I HAD AN EPIPHANY THE OTHER DAY ABOUT LIFE IN CANADA. It came to me, of all places, in a grocery store, holding an $11 carton of milk. The shop in question was Summerhill Market, an upscale store in an upscale part of Toronto, with prices to...
Jeffrey Rath jump-started Alberta’s dormant separatist movement. Now the country is about to face a moment of reckoning that he helped engineer. JEFFREY RATH SPENT THIS PAST CANADA DAY anticipating the end of Canada as we know it. That...
in the 1940s and ’50s, Jean Paul Riopelle helped carry Quebec’s abstract art movement onto the world stage at the edge of his palette knife. In the twilight of his career, he dreamed of a permanent home for his work. This fall, the National Museum...
