Why Success in Canada Means Moving to America
Canada’s modest institutions have lowered the ceiling on creative professionals. Is leaving the answer?
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Robots Are Writing Poetry, and Many People Can’t Tell the Difference
Machines are putting out astonishingly human writing. What does that mean for the future of art?
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Screaming and Watercolours: I Turned My Toddler’s Tantrums into Art
Was it unfeeling to use my child’s outbursts for an artistic pursuit?
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Orville Peck Rides Again: How the Singer Nods to Queer Country History
Some may reckon that Peck is subverting the genre. Instead, he’s highlighting themes that have always been part of it
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Let Her Eat Cake: The Subversive Power of Women Feasting
Women are told to tame their desires, stifle their appetites, and not take up space. But, as women directors have shown, there’s power in indulgence
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How Canada Accidentally Helped Crack Computer Translation
A technological whodunit—featuring Parliament, computer scientists, and a tipsy plane flight
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Athletes Are Getting Burned by Weed Rules. Is the Sports World Out of Touch?
Cannabis attitudes have changed since Ross Rebagliati’s Olympic mishap in 1998, but pro sports remain stuck in the past
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Poet Steven Heighton on Writing, Making Music, and Literally Losing His Voice
The author of nineteen books explains why success won’t make you happy
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Why Is Canadian Architecture So Bad?
Buildings from the past fifty years have been largely uninspiring. Why don’t we take good design seriously?
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