Ford picked a fight with Trump over energy exports because the illusion of leverage was all he needed. But anyone who looked at the books knew it was a bluff.

My parents purchased their burial plots nearly forty years ago. My mother likes to pull out the story about what a great deal they got because the plots were a cemetery resale—the previous owners, ...

Pope Leo XIV, the new pope as of 2025, views artificial intelligence (AI) as one of the most critical challenges facing humanity today. In his first formal audience at the Vatican, he explicitly ...

On May 26, Alberta announced that it was entering the book-banning business. “Multiple books found in some school libraries show extremely graphic and age-inappropriate content,” warned a government ...

In the frigid Atlantic waters off Nova Scotia’s east coast, two orcas—a mother and her calf—swim freely within a long bay. They dive up to eighteen metres to the ocean floor, where rock crabs, sea ...

When Gaspereau acquired Clarke’s Execution Poems, Clarke thought it would be a chapbook—small, paper covers, maybe stapled. Released in the fall of 2000, Execution Poems was like no chapbook ever ...

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R ecently, I showed up in Picton, Ontario, to slake a thirst that I worked up while scouting local quarries for trilobites. I noticed the cute but hobbit-free Shire Hall, the seat of government for ...

K uskowunusk is a dark cloud that holds the threat of a great rain that only the cumulonimbus can contain, and when we moved to my favourite home—the acreage, near Edmonton—the cumulonimbus gathered, ...

Since the turn of the millennium, Karen Solie has been the coolest of cool new things in Canadian poetry—a mysterious figure, everywhere and nowhere at once. Everywhere because her books have received ...

A group of friends plays cards and streams a hockey game at Mackay Lake Lodge, NWT. Even when I’m working at a remote cabin, it is hard to truly escape the rest of the world. Starlink, the internet ...

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