The Boring Brilliance of Hinterland Who’s Who
Fifty years later, the iconic one-minute nature docs remain the best television to ever come out of Canada
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What the Winnipeg General Strike Can Teach Us about Class, Capitalism, and Greed
In 1919, 35,000 workers ground Winnipeg to a halt. We may never again see another strike like it
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The Line King
Steve McDonald’s colouring books have conquered the world
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Canada’s Bull Semen Boom
We export more than $100 million worth of “white gold” per year—much of it from a handful of designer superstuds
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Number Cruncher
Coffee and quantum physics with the Liberals’ digital savant
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All Together Now!
Community choirs and the popularity of amateur culture
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What Would Tommy Douglas Think?
New Democrats today promise to make your life better without subscribing to anything as old-fashioned as a system of beliefs. Inside the ranks of the party unfaithful
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Adventures of a Supernumerary
My unlikely role in the Canadian Opera Company production of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos
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