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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 Rochdale College was an experiment in student-run alternative education and co-operative living in Toronto, Canada from 1968 to 1975. It provided space for 840 residents in a co-operative living space. It was also an informal, noncredited free .... 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Saunders
Douglas Richard Alan Saunders (born 1967) is a British and Canadian journalist and author, and columnist for '' The Globe and Mail'', a newspaper based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the newspaper's international-affairs columnist, and a long-serving foreign correspondent formerly based in London and Los Angeles, and is the author of three books focused on cities, migration and population. He is currently a Berlin-based resident fellow with the Robert Bosch Academy. Biography Saunders, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Canada, was born in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, educated in Toronto at York University. In his early twenties he was the Ottawa-based national bureau chief and writer for the Canadian University Press wire service. In the early 1990s he built a career in what was then the new field of online research and computer-assisted reporting for various Canadian journalists. He briefly worked as an editor for the left-leaning '' This Magazine''. In 1995 he join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Thompson (journalist)
Clive Thompson (born 30 October 1968) is a Canadian freelance journalist, blogger, and science and technology writer. Early life and education Thompson grew up in the 1970s and the 1980s in Toronto, Canada. He spent his childhood working with early models of computers. He tried to understand programs for games and for artificial intelligence as a child but did not succeed, so he chose not to study science. Thompson graduated from the University of Toronto with majors in political science and English in 1992. He previously worked for Canada's ''Report on Business'' magazine, ''This Magazine'', and ''Shift'' magazine, then became a freelance contributor for ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Lingua Franca'', ''Wired'', ''Shift'', ''Entertainment Weekly'' and several other publications. Professional work Thompson writes about digital technologies and their social and cultural impact for a number of publications, including the ''New York Times Magazine'' an ... [...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, ... [...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. Ros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Alexis
André Alexis (born 15 January 1957 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Canadian writer who grew up in Ottawa and lives in Toronto, Ontario.André Alexis in ''''. He has received numerous prizes including the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. Alexis is most well known for his , a series of five novels, each examining a particular theme, set in and around |
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''. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leah McLaren
Leah McLaren (born November 7, 1975) is a Canadian author and newspaper columnist. Career Her writing has been published in several 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 shot ''Abroad'', a television movie of the week, 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 modern-day Toronto. She has written a column in the Arts section. She also writes " ... [...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, graduating in 1979, then at Trent University in 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 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 second novel, ''Between Mountains'', is a love story about a London-based Canadian journalist and a Serbian Albanian interpreter from Paris that endures the hardships that occurred during the war. The novel juxtaposes love and ... [...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 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 of Ca .... In 2017, Niedzviecki wrote a piece for ''Write ... [...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 of Ca .... 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] |
