(Edited because I can’t spell) Some quick thoughts on Martin’s new Cabinet: 1. It’s nice to see my hero Stephane Dion back in Cabinet. Paul Martin seems to have had second thoughts about how he wants to treat the architect of the most important piece of legislation of the Chretien years. (That’s the Clarity Act, […] More »

Sorry for the long delay between postings, but I’ve been enjoying the fine weather, finer beaches, and terrible drinking establishments of British Columbia. I also managed to finally get to Fahrenheit 9-11, the Michael Moore doc that’s breaking attendance records everywhere. There’s something about the combination of me, Moore, and Vancouver that does not mix […] More »

I’ve never found the University of Toronto downtown campus particularly welcoming. As a shy undergraduate living off campus (and commuting more than three hours a day for much of my time there) its ivied and gargoyled buildings were beautiful but intimidating. I made very few friends there, and, like many alumni, have a somewhat sour […] More »

Hope everyone has done his or her homework! To give you a bit more to chew on, what follows are Joe Heath’s brief responses to the letters to the editor in the current issue of This Magazine. On a related topic: I went to the Fifth Avenue cinemas on Burrard Street last night to catch […] More »

First they stole our land, then our methods of water transportation. Cultural appropriation aside, is it too much to ask that weekend warriors give the canoe and kayak some respect? More »

(Edited to add more homework assignments) The May/June issue of This Magazine contained two pieces about The Corporation. A review of the film, by Joseph Heath, and a very short review of the book by me, Andrew Potter. A longer version of my review had previously appeared in the National Post. I didn’t like the […] More »

The Canadian Shield is a massive U-shaped chunk of central and eastern Canada that includes Labrador, most of Quebec, most of Ontario, half of Saskatchewan, and most of Nunavut—8 million square kilometers in all. Although a portion of it dips into the US Great Lakes states, it’s pretty much a Canadian thing, comprising rock that […] More »

I promised myself I wouldn’t write anything about the election results. To honour the Liberal’s victory, I shall now break that promise. In discussing the election with my friends in Quebec, one thing that struck me was the number of left-leaning people I know who supported the Bloc Quebecois and who were happy enough at […] More »

Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter’s book “The Rebel Sell” will be released September 23, 2004 by HarperCollins Canada. Based on the critically acclaimed article of the same name from our November 2002 issue, it promises to be a great read and we This Magazine folks are going to make it a best-seller too, right? I […] More »

If you want to know how Paul Martin went from the saviour of Canadian democracy to the John Turner of his generation in six short months, all you have to do is read the archive of Paul Wells’ blog at www.macleans.ca/paulwells. Wells is easily the best political columnist in Canada right now, and his daily […] More »

Monday, June 28 is the most important day of the year for Canadians. Of course, you say, that’s the date of what Paul Martin calls The Most Important Election in Canadian History. Big deal. Barely half of us will vote, and half of that half will be bitter no matter what the result, and then […] More »