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Hey Porter
by Cecil Foster
by Cecil Foster
How Canada’s Black sleeping-car porters became agents of social change.
Browsing: Essays
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The Goddamn [Opera] Is Dead!
by Monique Giroux
by Monique Giroux
How the Canadian Opera Company’s 2017 re-staging of the opera “Louis Riel” continued a legacy of marginalization and forgetting
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For All Its Faults:
Remembering the New Canadian Library
by Brian Busby
Remembering the New Canadian Library
by Brian Busby
The flawed-but-canonical literature series is dead, apparently.
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The Man Who Wasn’t There:
The Claude Jutra legacy, a year after the scandal
by Matthew Hays
The Claude Jutra legacy, a year after the scandal
by Matthew Hays
Allegations of child sexual assault against the late Quebec director failed to spark necessary conversations about pedophilia and acts of public veneration.
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Paris Confessions
by Deborah Dundas
by Deborah Dundas
Confessing my sins to an anonymous priest at Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral was a much more public experience than I imagined it would be…
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“Surfacing” Resurfaces
by Emily M. Keeler
by Emily M. Keeler
Why Margaret Atwood’s 1972 novel remains an uncannily courageous, weird, and potentially explosive work.
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The Sunken Kingdom
by Peter Dubé
by Peter Dubé
A story is haunting me. In itself, this is not unusual; stories are central, indeed generative, in my life, but the particular story is peculiar. It’s old and I suspect most people know it…
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Beautiful Losers: Fifty Years Later, Leonard Loses His Erection
by Anakana Schofield
by Anakana Schofield
In his essay, “Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible,” John Berger writes, “The impulse to paint comes neither…
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THE OTHER F-WORD: The Disappearance of Feminism from Our Fiction
by Nicole Dixon
by Nicole Dixon
Two months before Canada was to host the G8 and G20 leaders in Toronto, Conservative senator Nancy Ruth told women’s…
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The View From Shore: A Writer in Mid-Career Takes Stock
by Charles Foran
by Charles Foran
EARLY in 2006 I signed a contract with Knopf Canada to write a biography of Mordecai Richler. The advance was in…