Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
This republished piece, from 1920, sees Hemingway observe the behaviour of Toronto's opportunistic mayor at a local boxing bout. More great stuff from the Toronto Star's new Hemingway Papers project
Gary Doer was a popular premier of Manitoba, widely seen as a green crusader. Then he became Canada's ambassador to the US. Now he's changed his tune, promoting Alberta's tar-sands industry. Good read, even for non-Canadians
June 2011, Vancouver. Local NHL team, the Canucks, have just lost the deciding seventh game of the Stanley Cup Finals. A city erupts into riots. Amid the chaos, a photographer captures a spontaneous moment of intimacy
"It isn’t easy for a country to descend, in the space of a single decade, from crusader to pariah, as Canada has done on the environment. But our political leaders were up to the task." And voters don't appear to care
"Our idea of the sovereign state included a child's expectation that it would keep us safe. We have had to grow up." The state failed America on 9/11, and has been blundering since. Citizens who were once sceptical are now cynical
Much of the uranium for the Manhattan Project came from a mine in north-west Canada. The indigenous people who worked there had no idea what use the material would be put to, or how their own health would suffer
"He is enormous, uncultured, uncouth and déclassé, a high school football coach who presents more like a schoolyard bully". He hates bike lanes and speed bumps. And he looks set to be the next mayor of Toronto
Long profile. Canadian Liberal leader is smart, connected, polished, patriotic. So why are voters underwhelmed by him? Perhaps because they didn't choose him. Party insiders did
Trudeau-like man about town may be Canada’s next prime minister
Text of the coalition accord bringing the New Democratic Party into government (PDF)
