Author Stacey May Fowles The affair – seduction, desire, heartache – can overturn a life. Stacey May Fowles's third novel, Infidelity, recounts an affair, but it is also a twisting exploration of that "life," the one that came before the affair, the life so painful to dismantle because it, too, was…

Much of our daily lives would be dizzyingly unrecognizable to people living a hundred years ago: what we wear and what we eat, how we travel, how we

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On November 16, 1924, Siegfried Kracauer, a luminary in the literary world of the Weimar Republic, published a feisty essay in the Frankfurter Zeitung. Trained

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Earlier this month, Adam Bellow wrote a cover story for National Review calling on conservatives to contest the terrain of American culture more fully by investing more heavily in the arts — up to and including including “writing programs, fellowships, prizes, and so forth,” together with new…

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Animation by Dan Murphy satirizing Enbridge Northern Gateway ad In his meeting with Moriarty, Murphy says he was told Enbridge had complained to the Toronto head office of The Province’s owner, Postmedia Network Canada Corp., Canada’s largest newspaper chain. He says the order had come down to pull…

Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 has been showing off all kinds of new features this week. First we got a sneak peak at the water sports that are to be included in the

To the Editor: In his By the Book interview (Oct. 18), Matt Ridley states that reading fiction, for him, “feels too much like playing tennis without the net.” I have to assume that Ridley has never encountered the work of J.M. Coetzee, Per Petterson, Colson Whitehead, Thomas Pynchon, Zadie Smith or…

U.S. Victim of Mali Attack Worked on Women’s Health Anita Ashok Datar, an American public health worker, was killed Friday when gunmen attacked a hotel in Mali. Anita Ashok Datar, an American public health worker from the Washington suburbs, was killed Friday when gunmen attacked a luxury hotel in…

It didn’t take long for the new Liberal government to start undoing the changes Stephen Harper made to the way the country was run over his nine years as prime minister. Many of these changes were in the tone and style of governance: Trudeau unmuzzled scientists, said nice things to public servants,…

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A Critic at Large Writers in the Storm November 15, 2015 Illustration by Aude Van Ryn “No weather will be found in this book,” Mark Twain declares in the opening pages of his 1892 novel “The American Claimant.” He has determined to do without it, he explains, on the ground that it usually just gets…

Every now and then during the workweek—usually around three in the afternoon—a familiar ache begins to saturate my forehead and pool in my temples. The glare of my computer screen appears to suddenly intensify. My eyes trace the contour of the same sentence two or three times, yet I fail to extract…

OTTAWA—Canada’s top lawyer has never smoked pot, has sat beside her dying grandmother, and comes from a family where nearly all her relatives went to residential schools. Jody Wilson-Raybould, a forme

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New York Today "The Grand Armada," a Frank Stella work named for a chapter in "Moby-Dick," goes well with the "Moby-Dick" marathon at the Whitney.Credit...2015 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times Updated 10:18 a.m. Good morning on this brisk Friday…

MetroVanWatch has received this letter from Peter van der Velden, a facilities management consultant living in Tsawwassen. At the bottom, we add links to media, video, and references on the George Massey Tunnel and this proposed replacement project. The $3 billion hoodwink (text by Peter van der…

(This opinion piece contributed by Peter van der Velden challenges the rationale, processes, and assumptions behind the Province’s abrupt announcement in 2014 of a decision to build a new bridge to replace the Massey Tunnel, and proposes a fifth option for crossing the Fraser. Reprinted from…

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Internet Time Machine Facebook’s not your friend Leigh Alexander 5 min read· Nov 9, 2015 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo: Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images This story is part of the Internet Time Machine, a collection about life online in the 2010s. Lately Facebook is getting a…

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Sports of The Times Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy made an error on a ground ball hit by Paulo Orlando in the 12th inning of Game 5. The Royals, who were leading by 3-2, went on to score four more runs.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times So a glorious run of a Mets season, a trip deeper into…

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Ned Yost with Vancouver Canadians in 1979. Royals manager Ned Yost and two of his coacheslearned baseball while playing in Vancouver By Tom Hawthorn On the field in New York, jubilant players in the uniforms of the Kansas City Royals jumped about and mock wrestled like a Little League team that had…

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On Tuesday, Twitter Inc. announced another dreary set of quarterly earnings. While the company beat investor expectations, it’s still running at a loss of $132 million after taxes. Its fourth-quarter projections seem low. Worst of all, its namesake product has essentially failed to add any active…

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Darrell Bricker is the CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs; John Ibbitson is The Globe and Mail's writer at large. --------------------- In 2012 we wrote a book called The Big Shift, in which we argued that the rising power of Western Canada, coupled with massive immigration from Asian and Pacific…

In the final days of the federal election, with the Liberals leapfrogging over the NDP on an ostensibly progressive platform, one question dogged Trudeau to the end: what was his position on the recen