Canada at 150: Point to the Dead Bodies (and Keep Pointing)
How Should Progressives Respond to Canada’s 150th Birthday?
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Humanism’s Limit: The Refugee in our Times
Faced with the largest movement of peoples since World War Two, can the principle that “No One is Illegal” still stand?
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What are the painful takeaways from the Liberal Party’s overwhelming victory in Canada’s recent federal election?
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What Links Don Draper and Stephen Harper? A Lot More Than You’d Think.
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By Mark McConaghy
For a generation defined by the structured rhythms of the school and the corporation, what possibilities exist to nurture the “gaps” in experience the lead to genuine change?
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How can Joseph Boyden’s epic novel help us imagine ethical forms of community and ecology for a post-colonial Canada?
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By Mark McConaghy
In light of the Catalonian consultation on independence earlier this month, I try to analyze what lies at the very core of nationalist thought and politics in our contemporary world.
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By Mark McConaghy
What lies next for Canada after last week’s terrorist attacks? Some thoughts on security, openness, and the nature of Canadian society in our age of terror.
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By Mark McConaghy What is a monumental space? Any built environment that bespeaks grandeur, openness, solemnity. These are spaces that make you feel your own individual insignificance in the grand historical scheme of things, and yet that oddly provide a sense of comfort in that anonymity, making you happy to get lost in their epic […]
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Before we all became riveted on the problem of terrorism over the last 2 weeks, I had planned to write about another story that garnered much national attention here in Canada but has, since Boston, faded from the headlines. While my fellow 14th floorer Sean Callaghan has done an admirable job working through the philosophical complexities […]
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The 14th Floor 