This Magazine

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This Magazine is a Canadian political magazine. It is one of Canada's most successful independent magazines, and the country's most important and influential progressive political magazine.

The magazine was launched in 1966 as This Magazine is About Schools, a journal covering political issues in the education system. It gradually expanded its focus to include a wide variety of political, arts and cultural writing from a progressive perspective.

The magazine's current editor is Emily Schultz. The magazine's current publisher is Lisa Whittington-Hill.

Writers in This Magazine have included Naomi Klein, Margaret Atwood, Dionne Brand, Tomson Highway, Evelyn Lau, Dennis Lee, Michael Ondaatje, Rick Salutin, Stan Persky, Mel Watkins, Al Purdy, Drew Hayden Taylor, Mark Kingwell, Linda McQuaig, Darren Wershler-Henry, Julie Crysler, Hal Niedzviecki, Maggie Helwig, Leah McLaren, Audra Williams, Marnie Woodrow, Stuart Ross, and Clive Thompson.