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Daniel Baird

Daniel Baird is a regular contributor to The Walrus, Canadian Art, and Border-Crossings.
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Theatre

Self and Soul

June 10, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Daniel Baird

The National Ballet’s adaptation of Le Petit Prince is a journey back to childhood

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A flying eagle carrying a speech bubble
May 2014 / Media

No Place to Hide

April 14, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Daniel Baird

How the Internet endangers freedom of expression

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Illustration by Niall McClelland
Feature / January/February 2013 / The Walrus True Crime

Rough Justice

January 24, 2013May 29, 2020 - by Daniel Baird

Locking up offenders does little to prevent crime or make us safer. The history behind our impulse to punish

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October 2012 / Visual Art

Aristotle Got It

September 18, 2012October 1, 2018 - by Daniel Baird

The necessity of funding contemporary art, even if you don’t like it

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July/August 2012 / Society

Preacher in Practice

July 12, 2012May 1, 2017 - by Daniel Baird

Father Thomas Rosica, Catholic priest and smooth media operator, is an expert at spreading the Word

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Illustration by Sam Weber
Feature / January/February 2012

Apocalypse Soon

January 12, 2012April 15, 2020 - by Daniel Baird

Prophecies of impending doom—based on hard science as well as Scripture—abound. Where does our appetite for retribution come from?

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Photograph by Jody Rogac
Education / November 2011

The Observer, Observed

November 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Daniel Baird

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik is an aesthete of the ordinary, and this year’s Massey lecturer

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Illustration by Stephen Appleby-Barr
June 2011 / Society

The High Ground

June 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Daniel Baird

Can the faith of Quebec’s Cardinal Marc Ouellet restore the Catholic Church to innocence?

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Photo by Steve Payne, courtesy of the Power Plant Gallery
Feature / March 2011

Riffing

March 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Daniel Baird

Jazz inspired Michael Snow, the most influential Canadian artist of all time, to explore the unexplored

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Film / September 2010

City of Cinema

September 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Daniel Baird

The Toronto International Film Festival’s vaulting ambition to create a world-class centre for film

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