How Canada’s Black sleeping-car porters became agents of social change.
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How the Canadian Opera Company’s 2017 re-staging of the opera “Louis Riel” continued a legacy of marginalization and forgetting
The flawed-but-canonical literature series is dead, apparently.
Allegations of child sexual assault against the late Quebec director failed to spark necessary conversations about pedophilia and acts of public veneration.
Confessing my sins to an anonymous priest at Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral was a much more public experience than I imagined it would be…
Why Margaret Atwood’s 1972 novel remains an uncannily courageous, weird, and potentially explosive work.
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…
In his essay, “Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible,” John Berger writes, “The impulse to paint comes neither…
Two months before Canada was to host the G8 and G20 leaders in Toronto, Conservative senator Nancy Ruth told women’s…
EARLY in 2006 I signed a contract with Knopf Canada to write a biography of Mordecai Richler. The advance was in…