Michael Ignatieff on Equality in Canada and the World + Queeroes

I've been waiting a while to talk about this, but in the July/August issue of Outlooks (now a glossy, might I remind you), I have a two-page interview with Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. It was a pretty great interview, and he's certainly a pretty great person to do an interview with, who gives thoughtful and personable answers (though he politely declined to give substantive answers to a couple of policy questions).

The interview did take a few weeks to set up, between Parliamentary business and his hectic travel schedule, and in order to make deadline, we only managed a twenty minute phone call, but I ended up meeting him two days later at the caucus and media garden party at Stornoway, so we still got to put faces to names there.

Also in this issue is my review of the book Queeroes, along with an interview with author Steven Bereznai. This was initially a case of pitching a story to one editor, having it assigned, writing it, and then finding out that another editor in the same chain had assigned the same piece to someone else, and well, mine got cut (with a kill fee, mind you). Outlooks was happy to pick it up, especially as we interviewed Bereznai two years ago after his first book came out, so it all worked out in the end.

(Curiously, however, it appears that the summer edition of my Thoughts From the Hill panel got bumped).

The interview with Michael Ignatieff is on pages 28 and 29, while the Queeroes piece is on page 45. You can download the full issue in .pdf format here.