Naomi Klein’s Excellent Adventures

From brand name bullies to the Chicago Boys, an intrepid reporter covers the capitalist waterfront.

After the Circus

The Paralympic games may be yet to come, but the Olympic circus has already packed up and left town. In its wake, Max Fawcett takes a look at the city it changed, and what those changes mean.

1973

1973
It’s the 2008 award season in Canada as I write this—the GGs, Giller and The Writers’ Trust of Canada have been dolling out money for the past few weeks. Nino Ricci won the GG, Miriam Toews The Writers’ Trust Rogers Fiction prize, and Joseph Boyden the Giller. No agreement there. Only one writer appeared on [...]

Acknowledging a City’s Dark History

Prince George poet Barry McKinnon enters the millennium.

Owning the Podium

Brian Fawcett is enjoying Canada’s failure to “Own the Podium” at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Here’s why.

How the Nazis took Germany

Brian Fawcett reviews Sebastian Haffner’s 1939 memoir of living in Nazi Germany before the Second World War

Letter from Berlin: Secret Germany

It’s icy in Berlin. A good time to get a grip on Germany’s slippery past.

Figuring Out Colonel Williams

The Ontario mass media, with their experienced reporters all drinking Sangria at the Winter Olympics, have let loose their cub reporters on the Colonel Russell Williams case…

Ciccio’s Time

Brian Fawcett loses a cherished neighbour in downtown Toronto

Saving Haiti

Brian Fawcett tries to reassert perspective in the face of the earthquake in Haiti.

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