Aren’t Public Parks for Everybody?
After complaints of partying and loud music, one Toronto park became nearly impossible to access. Inside the fight to take it back
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Simon Lewsen writes for Azure, the Globe and Mail, and The Walrus. He teaches writing at the University of Toronto.
Canada’s Most Despised Political Institution Gets a Makeover
Will the Senate’s new look make it more popular?
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How to Make Opera Cool
As interest in traditional performance declines, upstart indie companies are fighting to keep the art form alive
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Who Says Canadian Architecture Is Boring?
From Toronto’s Union Station to saunas in cottage country, Partisans is reimagining design
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Chrystia Freeland Wants to Fix the Twenty-first Century
Why Canada’s foreign-affairs minister believes saving NAFTA will help save the world
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The Movie That Shocked Canada
Fifty years ago, Miracles in Modern Medicine brought the uncensored human body to the big screen—and into popular culture
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The Return of the Epic Novelist
In his new book, Steven Heighton revitalizes a grand tradition of storytelling—and sets himself against the identity politics of North American fiction
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A Dead Whale and the Politics of Climate Change
A museum struggles to tell the story of a species nearing extinction
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America Is Not a ‘Safe Country’ for Refugees
It’s time for Trudeau to sever ties with a US system that goes against Canadian values and international law
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The Web Aesthetic Comes to Cable Television
Nirvanna the Band the Show is as repetitive as a GIF and as random as a meme. It’s also great TV
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