"He wanted to make a tourist attraction out of his house"

That's the latest twist in the horrific story of the Austrian man who locked his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years, and it's a new feature of the banality of evil: It wants to sell tickets to its own spectacle. Read it here. 

What's with all the ugly people having sex?

From Tommy and Pam to YouPorn and, now, from “Nailin’ Palin” to Zack and Miri Make a Porno, tracking the democratization of pornography to the mainstream. Read it here.

How about a little loyalty?

In politics, media and beyond, our society's new heroes are complicated people with glimmers of hope- a look at pop culture now. Read it here. 

"In history, we'll all be dead"

Presidential legacies are curious creatures, established only once we have forgotten the presidency in question. Read it here.

"We are a Metis civilization"

Every nation has a stereotype. But why are Canadians inevitably pigeonholed as 'nice' and 'agreeable'? According to John Ralston Saul, it's our aboriginal ancestry shining through. Read it here.

Virtue or Vice

The luxury of Canadian elections is that they don't matter too much. We are embroiled in only one unpopular foreign war, our financial institutions are not yet shattering under the weight of mass greed, our health care system isn't on the brink of collapse, and none of our hockey moms will be given the launch codes for a nuclear armory. But the upcoming election, called for October 14th of this year, has put one of the boldest and most important policy initiatives in global politics on the table: the Liberal Party's "green shift." Read it here.

Can we stop acting so childish?

With teenage celebrities entering rehab and adult celebrities acting like teenagers, the line between adolescence and adulthood has never been more blurred. Read it here.