How do Canadians view themselves through the lens of national massacres?
Brigitte Pawliw-Fry
ON A COLD NIGHT IN DECEMBER 1989, Rachel, a first-year student at McGill University, was sitting in the emergency room with a friend suffering from a migraine. About an hour after they first arrived, paramedics began rushing women on stretchers through the ER. Rachel’s first response was confusion: She couldn’t understand why so many […] More »
I spit in a tube and uncovered secrets about my family long held under wraps by the government. My case for consumer DNA kits
Adam Elliott Segal
Illustration by CSA Images IN THE WINTER OF 2018, like millions of others across the world, I ordered a DNA test. For $99, Ancestry.com promised me a look into my family roots, using just my saliva. The kit arrived in Toronto late last winter from Utah, Ancestry’s home base. I took the collection tube out […] More »
It's long been seen as an unethical practice. Perhaps it's time to reconsider
Erica Lenti
Journalism ethics handbooks have, for decades, pedalled the same line of thought: Reporters and their sources should never exchange money. Paying sources is, as John Cook described in a piece on the matter for the Columbia Journalism Review, akin to paying for sex; it’s morally ambiguous, depending on who’s asking. It’s often easier to err […] More »
2017 has been an exciting year for This. In both our six annual issues and online, we’ve covered municipal, provincial, and federal politics, health care, activism, Canada’s sesquicentennial, new must-see art and artists, and more. As the year wraps up, we’ve compiled our top-performing stories from 2017—the pieces that resonated with readers most, that generated the […] More »
Come out on October 11 to talk Trudeau, politics, and more!
This Magazine
Great news for our Toronto readers: We’re hosting a panel event to celebrate the launch of our September/October issue, and we want you to come! Justin Trudeau has reached the midway point of his term as prime minister. Join This Magazine and our panelists Ashley Csanady, Supriya Dwivedi and Kyle Edwards as we look at […] More »
While we’re still hard at work putting together a magazine that holds powers to account, makes you think, and introduces you to some amazing Canadians, we thought we’d take a brief moment to toot our own horn and celebrate our amazing contributors. We are incredibly thrilled to let you know that This has been nominated for three […] More »
Andrew Battershill and Stevie Howell join the This team as fiction and poetry editors
Erica Lenti
The This Magazine family is thrilled to welcome Andrew Battershill and Stevie Howell to our team as our new literary editors! Our new fiction editor, Andrew, is a writer and teacher currently based in Toronto. His novel, Pillow, was longlisted for the 2016 Giller Prize; another book is forthcoming in 2018. He was also the co-founder and editor of Dragnet magazine. And our new poetry editor, […] More »
Do you love CanLit? Are you always on the lookout for emerging authors and poets? If so, we want you! This Magazine is looking for both a fiction editor and poetry editor! Our fiction editor is responsible for overseeing the magazine’s fiction section. This Magazine publishes six print issues a year, with each issue featuring a short story by […] More »
Love the arts? Have a passion for editing? Want to make your mark in Canada’s best small magazine? This Magazine is looking for a new Arts and Ideas Editor! The Arts and Ideas Editor handles the back-of-book arts section, covering Canadian independent artists and cultural issues. Ideal candidates have magazine editing experience, a passion for […] More »
This Magazine is thrilled to announce our incoming editor Erica Lenti. Erica is This Magazine‘s current columns editor, and has worked with This since 2012. She is a Toronto-based editor and writer and previously served as deputy editor of Torontoist. Her first issue as editor debuts in January/February 2017. She sat down with outgoing editor […] More »
Media and public reaction to verdict says much about how far we have to go when it comes to talking about sexual assault and believing women
Hillary Di Menna
In late July, Mustafa Ururyar was found guilty of sexual assault against Mandi Gray. I have goose bumps just writing that sentence. Justice Marvin Zuker read his decision out loud in court from a 180-page prepared document. He started with recounting both Gray’s and Ururyar’s respective reports as well as relevant cases from Canada’s legal […] More »