Tag Archives: Canada
Contributor Picks: Made in Canada
Happy Canada Day! To celebrate our national holiday, Pamela, Christopher, Nicolas, and Dimitri list their favourite oeuvres made in Canada.
Posted in Contributor Picks
Tagged Canada, Men with Brooms, Neverwinter Nights, Picks, The Mad, You Can't Do That on Television
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Go Space World Tour: Sherbrooke, Québec
The Go Space World Tour returns! Alison visits the Québec Eastern Townships and discovers the wonders of cryptic government signage.
Go Space World Tour: Québec City, Québec
Introducing the Go Space World Tour! Ray visits the capital of Canada’s only primarily French province and questions France’s fondness for its former colonies.
The Canadian Identity and other Oxymora
The Canadian identity crisis! Dimitri contrasts Ray Smith’s Cape Breton Is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada with Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill and makes a really awkward joke about Canadian stereotypes.
Cape Breton Is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada
Confused about what it means to be Canadian? Dimitri reviews Ray Smith’s compiled fiction and rambles about our fractured national identity.
Tracing a Yellow Brick Road
To every ending a setup! In this literary essay, Dimitri discusses the conclusion, or rather its buildup, in Margaret Atwood’s Death by Landscape, originally published in the 1991 collection Wilderness Tip.
Posted in Literary Essays
Tagged Canada, Margaret Atwood, Short Story, Wilderness Tips
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Defining the Definers
Defining the Canadian identity! Dimitri discusses three literary classics: Margaret Atwood’s Lady oracle, Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners, and Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes.
Posted in Literary Essays
Tagged Canada, Hugh MacLennan, Lady Oracle, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, The Diviners, Two Solitudes
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