by Matthew Friedman | Nov 22, 2019 | Commentary, Satire
Good sense seems to be breaking out all over in the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. Elizabeth Warren has shown her political acumen and practicality by backing-off from her previously-held Medicare-for-All position this week. Pete Buttigieg, who...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 11, 2019 | Essays
I feel closer to my father in early November than at any other time of the year. It was always then, in late autumn – when the fallen leaves lay in deep mats, or raked into towering piles in the parks and yards of Montreal, following the first killing frosts, and just...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 10, 2019 | Features
Sol Littman stood up in the back row to harangue the audience at a panel discussion on online hate at the Canadian Jewish Congress’s annual conference in Montreal. It was 1995, and the neo-Nazi propaganda efforts of Jason Smith, Greg Raven, Milton Kleim and...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 8, 2019 | Nonfiction, Short Story
An icy January rain fell like bullets outside Victoria Hall in Westmount. Inside, most of the Johnny Holmes Orchestra was taking a break as Lorraine MacAllister sang a smokey cover of “Be Careful It’s My Heart” to Oscar Peterson’s spare piano accompaniment. A pair of...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 2, 2019 | Features
Milton Kleim surprised me. I had been writing about online neo-Nazis, antisemites, and Holocaust deniers for the Montreal Gazette for quite a while when I met him, and I had thought I had it all figured out. They were skinhead louts like Jason Smith, sleazy...
