Current issue—Spring 2010:
Highlights from archives
Vianney (Sam) Carriere
Reflections on a reflection
I am fascinated by things that I struggle to understand, elusive things that don’t quite present enough mystery to be completely impenetrable and yet that hide from me a complete assimilation of what they are. I am of a generation that recalls the cult novel by Robert Heinlein called Stranger in a Strange Land and [...]
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Emails and sleeping on the subway
This is about communication, silence and lost opportunities.
Putting words into the mouth of someone else, let alone the resident CEO is a task that a communications underling approaches with some trepidation and not a small measure of due consideration. So it was that when I recently crafted a statement on behalf of the Primate to [...]
Snapper, in context
There are people who spend their lives walking a thin divide between something they strive to present to the world—a carefully nurtured persona—and what they really are.
read moreDeath by degrees
On a winter afternoon in Toronto not that long ago, a series of shots rang out in a high school parking lot and when the confusion had cleared, three young people lay in the snow with bullet wounds. Several days later, a newspaper sent a reporter out to the same schoolyard to ask some of [...]
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