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Hooked on Phonics

From Planes Flying Over a Monster, which was published last month by Catapult. Translated by Christina MacSweeney. The Grande Bibliothèque is an enormous glass edifice that stands opposite the Berri–UQAM…

Rule of Thumb

From a ruling issued in June by the Court of King’s Bench in Saskatchewan, Canada, in a case brought by a grain buyer who claimed that a local farmer had…

The World According to Grapes

by John Semley,

Hockey fight in Canada: how the firing of a legacy sports broadcaster exposed the frailty of Canada’s national myth

Alms for the Führer

From a list of gifts given to President Trump by foreign officials in 2017, which was published by the State Department’s Office of the Chief of Protocol in March. The…

Northern Disposure

by Will Sloan,

How Rob Ford’s brother campaigned—and won—on an anti-sex-education platform

Crossing Guards

by Matt Mossman,

When private ownership of a bridge gets old

Power in Paris

by Rebecca Solnit,

Can the earth be saved by bureaucrats in long meetings, reciting jargon and acronyms while surrounded by leaning towers of documents? That is what’s supposed to happen in France this…

The Nixon of the North

by Heather Mallick,

How Stephen Harper ruined Canada

To Coldly Go

From focus-group comments on the redesigned Canadian five-dollar bill, which depicts an astronaut floating beside Canadarm2, a robotic arm invented in Canada and used on the International Space Station. The…

Eight swimmers

by Leanne Shapton,

Weekly Review

A prison fire in Honduras killed 359 people, making it the deadliest such fire on record. An inmate was reported to have started the fire after phoning the state governor’s…