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This (Canadian Magazine)
''This Magazine'' is an independent alternative Canadian political magazine. History and profile The magazine was launched "by a gang of school activists" in April 1966 as ''This Magazine Is About Schools'', a journal covering political issues in the education system. During its early years, its editorial offices were located near the University of Toronto in space rented from Campus Co-operative Residences Inc., which in the late 1960s spawned the experimental "free university" Rochdale College. The educational philosophy of Rochdale College was influenced by this association, and by several individuals who published in ''This Magazine'', especially Dennis Lee. The name was shortened to simply ''This Magazine'' in 1973, and it gradually expanded its focus to include a wide variety of political, arts and cultural writing from a progressive perspective. ''This Magazine'' is one of Canada's longest-publishing alternative journals. Praised for integrating commentary and invest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drew Hayden Taylor
Drew Hayden Taylor (born 1 July 1962) is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, author and journalist. Life and career Born in Curve Lake, Ontario, Taylor is of both Ojibwe and white ancestry. About his background Taylor says: "I plan to start my own nation. Because I am half Ojibway half Caucasian, we will be called the occasions. And of course, since I’m founding the new nation, I will be a special occasion." He also mused in a '' Globe and Mail'' essay: "Fighting over status/non-status, Métis, skin colour etc., only increases the sense of dysfunction in our community." He writes about First Nations culture and has also been a frequent contributor to various magazines including '' This Magazine''. His writing includes plays, short stories, essays, newspaper columns and film and television work. In 2004 he was appointed to the Ontario Ministry of Culture Advisory Committee. As well as his writing, Taylor has been the artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts, and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Hall (poet)
Phil Hall (born 1953 in Lindsay, Ontario) is a Canadian poet. Education Hall holds a M.A. in creative writing from the University of Windsor. Career Phil Hall started Flat Singles Press, producing broadsides & chapbooks, when he was an undergraduate studying drama and English at the University of Windsor. After graduating with an MA in 1978, he lived in Vancouver, where he was a member of the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union and the Vancouver Men Against Rape Collective. In the late 80s he often wrote reviews of poetry and children's literature for Books In Canada, and was the Literary Editor for This Magazine. He also edited (with Andrew Vaisius) a short-lived journal called ''Don't Quit Yr Day-Job''. Hall has taught writing and literature at York University, Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), George Brown College, Seneca College and Humber College. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, the University of Ottawa, Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Ross
Stuart Ross is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor. Ross was born in Toronto's north end in 1959 and grew up in the Borough of North York. He began writing at a very young age and was first published at age 16 by Books by Kids (now Annick Press). This book, ''The Thing in Exile'', also contained work by teen writers Steven Feldman and Mark Laba. Ross attended Alternative Independent Study Program for high school. He went on to self-publish dozens of books and chapbooks through his Proper Tales Press imprint. As his books began to emerge from larger literary publishing houses, he has continued his Proper Tales Press project. Ross has been active in the Toronto literary scene since the mid-1970s. He is co-founder, with Nicholas Power, of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair, which has been operating since 1987 under various directorships. This fair, the first of its kind in Canada, inspired similar events in Vancouver, Ottawa, and Hamilton. Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Alexis
André Alexis is a Canadian writer who was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, grew up in Ottawa, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario.André Alexis in ''''. He has received numerous awards including the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, the , the |
Marnie Woodrow
Marnie Woodrow (born 1969) is a Canadian comedian and writer and editor. She has also worked as an editor, magazine writer and as a researcher for TV and radio. Woodrow has published two short fiction collections, ''Why We Close Our Eyes When We Kiss'' in 1991"Mystery, love and aggravation: Marnie Woodrow's first novel has all of these, and more. Just don't call it a lesbian story". ''Ottawa Citizen'', May 8, 2002. and ''In the Spice House'' in 1996, before publishing her debut novel ''Spelling Mississippi'' in 2002. ''Spelling Mississippi'' was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2003. Woodrow was mentored in her early writing career by the late Timothy Findley. She has also been a columnist for ''Xtra!'', Toronto's gay and lesbian biweekly newspaper. Her occasional journalism, essays, stories and poetry have appeared in numerous publications including ''The Globe and Mail'', ''National Post'', ''CV2'', ''Write'', '' NOW'', '' eye weekly'' and '' This Magazine''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leah McLaren
Leah McLaren (born November 7, 1975) is a Canadian author and newspaper columnist. Career In Britain, McLaren's writing has been published in newspapers including ''The Times'', '' The Evening Standard'', and ''The Sunday Telegraph'', as well as in the weekly magazine ''The Spectator'', for which she wrote a controversial and widely read cover story on the romantic failure of the modern English male. In 2008, the CBC produced ''Abroad'', a television movie of the week that was written and produced by McLaren and based on her experiences as a young Canadian newspaper reporter living and dating in London. It aired once, on March 14, 2010, and was being developed as a series until CBC Television cancelled it before any other episodes were made. McLaren describes herself as a feminist. She had a regular Saturday column in the Life section of ''The Globe and Mail'', in which she talked about living as a single woman in Toronto. She also had a column in the Arts section. She also wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Helwig
Maggie Helwig (born 1961) is a Canadian poet, novelist, social justice activist, and Anglican priest. Academic career Her early education was at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute in Kingston, Ontario, Kingston, Ontario, graduating in 1979, then at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Peterborough, Ontario, where she graduated with honours with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983. After reading for a Master of Divinity degree and serving as co-Head of Divinity at University of Trinity College, Trinity College, Toronto, she was ordained to the transitional diaconate in the Anglican Church of Canada at St. Paul's, Bloor Street, Toronto on 1 May 2011, and subsequently to the priesthood on 22 January 2012. On 27 November 2021, she was appointed an honorary Canon of St James' Cathedral, Toronto. Bibliography Helwig's first novel, ''Where She Was Standing'', is about the murder of a Canadian in Timor-Leste. Her second novel, ''Between Mountains'', is a love story about a L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Niedzviecki
Hal Niedzviecki (born January 9, 1971) is a Canadian novelist and cultural critic. Born in Brockville, he was raised by a Jewish family in Ottawa, Ontario, and Potomac, Maryland, did his undergraduate studies at University College, Toronto, and his postgraduate studies at Bard College. In 1995, he co-founded the magazine '' Broken Pencil'', a guide to underground arts and zine culture, and was the magazine's editor until 2002. He has also written for ''Adbusters'', '' Utne'', ''The Walrus'', '' This Magazine'', ''Geist'', ''Toronto Life'', ''The Globe and Mail'', and the ''National Post''. In 2006, Niedzviecki hosted a summer replacement series, ''Subcultures'', on CBC Radio One. In 2017, Niedzviecki wrote a piece for ''Write'', the Writers' Union of Canada magazine, where he wrote: "In my opinion, anyone, anywhere, should be encouraged to imagine other peoples, other cultures, other identities" and told writers to try to "Win the Appropriation Prize". After controversy arose ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Crysler
Julie Crysler is a Canadian journalist and a published poet. In 1996 she was voted Montreal's second-best poet. She was the editor of '' This Magazine'' from 2000 to 2004, and is currently a producer for CBC Radio One CBC Radio One is the English-language news and information radio network of the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial-free and offers local and national programming. It is available on AM and FM to 98 percent o .... References 20th-century Canadian poets Canadian magazine journalists Canadian women poets Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian women journalists Canadian radio producers 20th-century Canadian women writers Canadian women non-fiction writers Women radio producers {{Canada-journalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Wershler-Henry
Darren Wershler, also known as Darren Wershler-Henry, (b. 1966) is a Canadian experimental poet, non-fiction writer and cultural critic. Wershler was the senior editor of Coach House Books between 1997 and 2002, where the works he edited included several highly acclaimed books of contemporary innovative poetry, including ''Fidget'' by Kenneth Goldsmith (2000), both volumes of ''Seven Pages Missing'', the collected works of Steve McCaffery (2000, 2002), ''Lip Service'' by Bruce Andrews (2001), and ''Eunoia'' by Christian Bök (2001). Wershler is the youngest poet discussed in Marjorie Perloff's ''21st Century Modernism'', which analyzes his second book of poetry, ''the tapeworm foundry'' (a Trillium Book Award finalist in 2000). He has instructed courses in Communication Studies at York University and Wilfrid Laurier University and currently is the Concordia University Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature (Tier 2) at Concordia University. He has authored several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda McQuaig
Linda Joy McQuaig (born September 1951) is a Canadian journalist, columnist, author and social critic. She worked as a reporter investigating the Patti Starr affair. She wrote books and newspaper columns focusing on corporate influence in economic and social policy. Jonathan Kay of the ''National Post'' newspaper described her as "Canada's Michael Moore". In 2016, her book ''Shooting the Hippo: Death by Deficit and other Canadian Myths'' was named by the ''Literary Review of Canada'' as one of the 25 most influential Canadian books of the prior 25 years. Early years and personal life McQuaig was born to a middle-class Toronto family. Her father Jack wrote a half-dozen books on leadership and personal development. Her mother Audrey trained as a psychologist, but gave up her career to raise McQuaig, her sister and brothers. From 1963 to 1970 McQuaig attended Branksome Hall, a Toronto Private school, private girls school where she became president of the debating society, and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
