Diapers, Daycare, and Dissertations
How McGill is failing student parents
Features
Jerson Ballena loses his job. You get a cheap laptop. Welcome to globalization, Philippines style.
When I met him last summer, Jerson Ballena was thirty years old, a father of two, and worked on an assembly line in the Philippines… Read More »Jerson Ballena loses his job. You get a cheap laptop. Welcome to globalization, Philippines style.
Pepper spray and milk
Steve Eldon Kerr remembers how November 10 dissolved into violence
Among the vodouisants
Four portraits of Haitian voodoo
“I’m not about being men’s sexual dream-come-true”
Olivia Messer and Joan Moses investigate bisexual experience and identity
“They won’t touch our rights”
The intersection of Islam, feminism, and democracy
Bilingualism gets stage fright
A theatre school tries to untangle Canada’s language politics
The secularist and the synagogue
On June 19, 2011, temperatures in Montreal reached the mid-20s. The children of Outremont were busy, as they always are in summer, scootering down the… Read More »The secularist and the synagogue
Death by Cream
One McGill grad’s sexmurders
Three Days Occupying Wall Street
“Welcome to Zuccotti Park Zoo,” says the sign, duct-taped to a tree at the edge of the newly-renamed Liberty Park, the heart of Occupy Wall… Read More »Three Days Occupying Wall Street
Mordecai Richler Was Here
Ten years after the Montreal novelist’s death, his widow Florence keeps his memory alive
The first week
Voices and numbers from the beginning of Occupy Montreal
Secularism and its discontents
José Casanova is a professor in the Sociology Department of Georgetown University. He’s one of the world experts on religion and globalization. His 1994 book Public… Read More »Secularism and its discontents
Lysis to kill
How viruses could save your life
Justice deferred
Why you don’t want to be wrongfully convicted in Canada