[Editor’s Note: from time to time we’ll feature guest bloggers on important issues; In honour of today’s big electoral hurrah in the U.S., a reflection on Canadians’ feelings of helplessness as the American presidential race comes down to its final hours.] BY SARAH BARMAK A couple of weeks ago a friend from Texas who is […] More »

We’re very excited to share with you the first in what we hope will be a series of This Magazine video features; some of these may stand on their own, while others — like this discussion with Alison Lee, who wrote the cover story in the November/December 2008 issue, “The New Face of Porn” (at […] More »

Now for those of you who are actually paying attention: Last week, I promised that I would talk about a distinctly able-bodied affliction I’ve noticed called the “Sorry Syndrome”. Well, I’m going to make like the government and put that disability issue on the back burner in favor of something I arbitrarily deem more important […] More »

Our friends at the esteemed Utne Reader have excerpted a This Magazine story for their November-December 2008 issue. Peter Tupper’s “The Addict’s Last Refuge” examined the poorly understood drug ibogaine, which can help suppress addicts’ heroin cravings. Despite plenty of anecdotal evidence that ibogaine can achieve results in people who haven’t responded to traditional rehab, […] More »

This is just a quick blog post to ask all our lovely blog readers, friends, and frenemies to take a moment to fill out our 2008 This Magazine Reader Survey. It should take just a few minutes, and the information you provide is very helpful to us as we work at improving the magazine and […] More »

Now that the first issue of This Magazine bearing my name is on newsstands, I thought it was time for a proper introduction. And at the end of my first editorial (“The Trickle-Up crisis”, November/December 2008) I promised a short explanation about “who exactly I am and what business I have being here.” Here it […] More »