Where did this idea that the taxation of corporations drives away investment come from? Canadian political values have seemed to be socially progressive over the last several decades. This has made me to wonder whether the American dream of the pursuit of happiness has begun to affect us.

Canadian politics exist right now within a very narrow spectrum. Put another way, I believe that the policy choices (and by virtue, policy differences) available to the parties able to wield power do not represent differences premised on varying ideas of what the country and can be and how government should contribute to that becoming.

It’s all there, but digging is absolutely required. Peel back the outer layers of the market and you can find discarded jewels, hidden gems. Opening daily around 10 a.m., but hitting fever pitch just after lunch, the Goblin Market is an ideal beginning to an all-day (and night) adventure in Seoul.

The scale of the Marshall Plan was unprecedented; the sum of monies sent from the United States to Europe was colossal, and the impact of the effort was transformative for both parties. It was, perhaps, the first shot across the bow of the modern international economic system, and it lead to structures and institutions that still govern how states behave with respect to the global economic system.

In part two of her three-part analysis of nuclear power around the world, Kate Gilbert turns her attention to Canada's nuclear projects.

Two thousand and seven: that was the year I sat in a green folding chair on a quiet summer morning, in a bucolic orchard tea garden in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, England. On that morning I unexpectedly learned two lessons that have changed the way I think about and experience travel.

My copy of Greg Whincup’s The Heart of Chinese Poetry was rescued from a disastrous, disorganized used book store on Yonge Street in Toronto. I’m no longer sure which store, but I can recall the way the alphabetization ran first sideways to the right, then down, then left, then down again, and how books were stacked back-to-face instead of standing beside one another with the spines outward.