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In the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, there was a running joke about how Canadians are scared of the dark. At the time, I didn’t really get it, and maybe I still don’t. But I’ve come to think that light-hearted remark might hold more insight into Canadian
28 October 2026
In the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, there was a running joke about how Canadians are scared of the dark. At the time, I didn’t really get it, and maybe I still
21 October 2026
In the summer of 2024, I was sitting on the lawn outside the dining hall at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, in southwestern Germany. While speaking to some fellow students at a club
21 October 2026
On August 5 2026, an oil tanker from Canada ventured across the Pacific and landed in the port of Kagoshima carrying 750,000 barrels of Alberta crude oil via the Trans Mountain Pipeline that
14 October 2026
Editor's Preface: With municipal election campaigns now underway in many cities and towns across Canada, debates about the future of neighbourhoods have acquired particular urgency. The controversy arising from one province’s
7 October 2026
Left: S.C. Ells, Canada. Dept. of Mines and Technical Surveys/Library and Archives Canada, PA-014454. Right: Karl Clark, University of Alberta Archives, 78-114-11. While separation from Canada is the hot
30 September 2026
It is no longer fair to say that the only thing to do on weekends in Vancouver is to go out of it for a hike. All the same, you could do worse than
23 September 2026
Human beings have always been shaped by the things we use to accomplish our many aims. We are homo faber (maker) as much as sapiens, for all the myriad things that make up our
16 September 2026
Two stories from the past month best illustrate the nature of American power in the current moment: one involves Canada, the other Venezuela. The first is about a country and its leadership strong enough
