Editorial
L’Étranger
Jan 4th
An outsider’s view of Canada and things Canadian…
It was my geography teacher, when I was 17, who gave me my first inkling of what it must be like to be Canadian, when he suggested that Australians had a stronger sense of national identity because they were an island continent. Canadians, on the other hand, have been separated from the most powerful nation on Earth by only a very long, often invisible line.
Forty years and numerous visits to different parts of Canada later, I think he was both right and wrong. On the one hand, no-one can deny that Canadians do More >
Toronto – My Kind of Town
Jan 4th
Bob Fisher invites us to spend a long weekend in his home city, Toronto…
How does a travel journalist describe the city in which he has spent most of his life?
A Latin professor of mine at university many years ago insisted that we speak certain rather arcane sentences. I remember especially:
Strepitum odi urbium; rus est semper mihi gratissium (I hate the din of cities; the country is most pleasing to me.)
There is the perennial love-hate relationship with cities and their cultures of “the rush”. As poor angst-ridden Woody Allen once said in a documentary, “I like everywhere I go; I just More >
What is Canada Magazine?
Dec 21st
The Editor, Stan Abbott
Canada Magazine is a consumer magazine that brings together the best writing and photography about Canada in the 21st century.
Canada Magazine is NOT a travel brochure, and it’s not a publication issued on behalf of any particular business or interest group.
Our audience is anyone who is interested in the world’s second largest country, in all its diversity of people, scenery and culture.
Why does Canada need its own magazine? Well, although Canada is a land of many superlatives, people in the rest of the world often have only hazy notions about the detail of this vast Canadian canvas.
Yes, More >
