If you don’t know Colin James’s work (and unless you’re a blues diehard, you probably don’t; he doesn’t get the radio play he deserves) you’re missing one of…
*From the Archives March 2000 By Barry Allen The Jews are in Israel because it is the ancestral home of their people. To call modern Israel a colonist…
By Gabriel Levin “The eyes of all the Jews in the world praying right now are on you”. Our tour guide Yuval is explaining how Jews all across…
By Kent Peacock There is a place in India called Alang, where old ships are broken. In this surreal wasteland hosts of labourers swarm over the hulks of…
By Kate Zankowicz I can still see the photos in the National Georgraphic of my mind. The startling realization that those dead leaves coating the trees are in…
By Diane Baker Mason I’m not a car person. I don’t understand the thrill of a newly-released line of imports, or the sound of a particularly sporty engine…
By Diane Baker Mason They say the closest memory-related sense is scent. It is not a sight or sound that triggers nostalgia, but a smell: the odor of…
By Russell Wangersky Perched high on Alberta’s Tunnel Mountain, I could look down and see the cloudy green melt-water of the Bow River in summer, see why…
By Leslie Whatmough If you work in an office environment, the term home office may suggest a lifetime of homework, but a well designed home office can be…
By George Patrick Imagine, if you can, a new and better Canada — a Canada free of those vices that cause so much havoc in our lives —…