The Ephemera

Goings on at the magazine.

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Neighbourhood Watch

In January, 1968, eleven black students integrated Mount Greenwood Elementary School, on Chicago’s Southwest Side. In this excerpt from a memoir of her family’s civil-rights activities, Terry Murray, a white Mount Greenwood teen at the time, recalls the turmoil of the anti-integration protests that followed.

by Terry Murray

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Devilishly Elegant

Nothing says summer like a trayful of hard-boiled eggs covered in salad dressing and cornflakes.

by Brian Francis

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Life in a (Tiny) Northern Town

Eric Veillette, the chief planner of Spruce Mills, is taking city building to new heights.

by Conan Tobias

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Wendy Makes Sculpture

by Walter Scott

Girls‘ Washroom

by Dave Lapp

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Worry

by Jessica Westhead

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A Man and His World

Expo 67’s life-shaping influence.

by Alfred Holden

Accidental Historian

Barry Slater’s curious nature is helping a Toronto curling club rediscover its past.

by Conan Tobias

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Footprints in the Sand

Richard Kelly Kemick wasn’t sure why he wanted to spend an entire summer in the Alberta badlands acting in a play about the death of Jesus Christ. In this excerpt from a work-in-progress, the Christian-turned-agnostic discovers he’s not the only one with questions.

by Richard Kelly Kemick

Distinctly Canadian

Visitors to Jasper, Alberta, still love the town’s namesake host, seventy years after his first appearance.

by Conan Tobias

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The Same Cabin

by Cedar Bowers

Can You Tell Me a Joke About Your Profession?

by Shannon Webb-Campbell

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Birthright

Hip hop at the Six Nations reserve.

by Janet Rogers

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Cool Comics Club (of Ohio)

by Noah Van Sciver

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Avinguda de la República Argentina, 1908

by Michael Redhill

Lying as Wishful Thinking

by James Lindsay

To You, Who Gave Me Directions in Greenwich Village

by John Degen

Baguette, Pigeon, Peregrine

by Chris Chambers

Swoon

by Elana Wolff

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