The Features

Taddle Creek’s resident caker cook whips up a lasagna so strong and free, two out of two nonnas deem it serviceable.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The Short Stack series.

Three new reference works.

Expo 67’s life-shaping influence.

Letting go of the Centreville carousel.

Ten Foot Henry’s tall tale.

Michel Rabagliati’s Paul takes a walk through Montreal’s history.

The Saint John Ex’s ever-changing fortune.

Where some see barbarism, Levi Wiebe sees connection.

The magazine’s resident City Building columnist reflects on his three decades at the Toronto Star.

The egg cream is alive and well in New York—and a lone Montreal lunch counter.