Social Patriotism: The NDP's Forgotten Tradition

Dónal Gill

After its worst election result ever, the NDP needs to relearn a tradition it once knew well: fusing love of country with social democracy I. The Canadian Left and Nationalism The 2025 federal election was the worst result in the history of the New Democratic Party, including that of its forebear, the

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2 September 2026

Canada as Cosmopolis

Mike Thorn

Capitalism has been in some kind of crisis for as long as most people alive can recall. An anomalous interlude of prosperity and peace, the End of History, was first punctured by the 2008

Canada as Cosmopolis

26 August 2026

The Dual-Use Dimension

Stewart Leckie

Canada is about to spend more on defence than any living Canadian has planned for. We have $180 billion in procurement over ten years, a new agency to run the buying, ten named sovereign

The Dual-Use Dimension

26 August 2026

Messaging the AI Era

Julian Wells

Canada faces a massive looming divide on artificial intelligence. The Canadian government has committed billions of dollars to AI. Companies are rushing to adopt the latest tools from OpenAI and Anthropic. Canada has become

Messaging the AI Era

19 August 2026

Misunderstanding Media

Michael Cuenco

Thirty years ago, Silicon Valley invoked McLuhan while ignoring everything he actually argued. Michael Cuenco on how the "Californian Ideology" buried the one Canadian thinker who predicted our current wreckage, and why

Misunderstanding Media

12 August 2026

Canada as Empire of the Odd

David Telfer

Editor’s Preface Literature is one of the crucial places where a nation develops and comes to understand its own consciousness. Long before a country settles what it is, its writers will have been

Canada as Empire of the Odd

5 August 2026

Drawing the Human Line

Etienne Brisson

Before my life changed on March 20, 2025, I was a business coach with the Student Works Management Program in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, working with sixteen young entrepreneurs, teaching them how to run their

Drawing the Human Line

5 August 2026

Tracer la ligne humaine

Etienne Brisson

Avant que ma vie bascule le 20 mars 2025, j'étais coach en affaires pour le programme de gestion Peintres Étudiants à Trois-Rivières, au Québec, où j'accompagnais seize jeunes entrepreneurs

Tracer la ligne humaine