Social Distancing Is Impossible in Prisons. Why Are They Still Full?
Bail courts have gone virtual and trials are suspended. But prisons, which pose a severe public health risk, are still open
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The Terrifying, Techno-Dystopian Visions of Grimes’s New Album
The singer’s new album explores a dark truth: the most dangerous social forces are also the ones that fascinate us
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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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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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