Laura Payton has been, in her words, a huge fan of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for years. She's the senior online politics writer and the first in a long line of interview subjects for Thought Out Loud's new "Four Questions For" series.
The very loudest sto...
posted by David Moscrop
The Home Issue continues with David Moscrop's look at home as something born of moments of alienation, as a fleeting thing that we can never go back to. As the impossible attempt to return from the land of the young.
Home is where my stuff is
posted by Katherine Whalen
To kick off the Home Issue, Katherine Whalen tells us what it means to stuff everything that's important to you into some vinyl bags before trekking to the opposite side of the earth.
The end of Qaddafi a...
posted by John Mullin
The Arab Spring has brought with it a number of surprises and major political and social upheavals. John Mullin looks at a few of them and imagines what the future might have in store for the Middle East.
Young Israel, part 1
posted by John Mullin
I’ve heard Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to, within the same conversation, as “a complete piece of shit” and “my hero.” By the same person.
Notes from the North
posted by Bradley Prouse
Bradley Prouse has decided to spend the month of August in Resolute. Which is in Nunavut. The sun barely sets there at this time of year, and when it does it's only for a few minutes. Brad notes his sun madness here, but also talks about the region's history and how he wants to go fishing. He also held a narwhal tusk. Updates throughout the month.
The Positivity News:...
posted by Jessie Hornby
Six years after Canada afforded same-sex couples the right to legally marry, our social mores have remained intact. Despite some dramatic predictions from naysayers, Canadians have not started embracing bestiality and paedophilia, nor have heterosexual unions suffered (although, as the author points out, how gay marriage might have hurt conventional marriages is pretty unclear).
The debt ceiling debate: some considerations
posted by John Mullin
In American politics, the tendency is to see every major national debate in fatalistic terms. I recall the debate surrounding the Afghanistan policy review about ten months ago as being cast in the most literally do-or-die terms imaginable by the media. This tendency, of course, produces in the public a large degree of cynicism and apathy – if every debate and decision is presented with end-of-the-world seriousness (seriousness which is almost always manufactured), then what happens when a crisis arises that is actually extremely serious?