How many kids can you shoot?” asks Lt.-Gen. the Honourable Roméo Dallaire (ret’d), fixing me with a penetrating blue stare. “Even under the mandate of protecting other people? Or under the international law of self-defence?”
By Aparna Sanyal
Interviews
"I like snapshots,” Gillian Sze says brightly. There is a plate of charmingly small cookies between us, and she is taking a picture of them with her phone. "I like trying to crystallize moments or little details. But then again, maybe all poets are trying to do that."
By Abby Paige
There is a whole branch of philosophy about the Just War, but Dimitri Nasrallah remains sceptical. “Ultimately, war is chaos,” the Montreal author says. “The vast majority of people are caught in the middle. They’re waiting for the shelling to die down so they can go to the store, hoping that the electricity doesn’t cut off long enough for their food to go bad or that a bullet doesn’t come through their window.”
By Eric Boodman
The conventional wisdom is that history is told from the perspective of the victors. But in Canada the “winning” side doesn’t always control the narrative.
By Mélanie Grondin
She had eyes you could get lost in and the kind of voice bankers leave their wives for, so when she asked me if I would take the case, how could I refuse? It didn't hurt that there was some money in it for me, too. The case? To dig into the life of a man who'd been dead for forty-two years.
By Michael Blair
Simon Brault is CEO of the National Theatre School and Vice-Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts. He has been ...
By Elise Moser
Someone reading People magazine might conclude that Tom Cruise and Sandra Bullock run Hollywood. While they ...
By Yves Engler
Ishmael Reed’s Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers offers many prescient ...
By Caroline Brown
"Be an international writer who happens to be a Filipino,” says a senior writer to an aspiring one in Miguel ...
By Ian McGillis
Holly Dressel calls them the “green techies”: the researchers who herald newfangled technologies to solve ...
By Sarah Fletcher
Say what you will about the state of Canadian novels – a subject that elicits sharp opinions from the minority of ...
By Dimitri Nasrallah
For all but the youngest residents of Montreal, the events and images are still vivid: millions of people without ...
By Michael Carbert