Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Confronting the Influence of Canada’s Colonial Monuments

June 8, 2020July 7, 2022 - by Amy van den Berg

Artist Scott Benesiinaabandan reminds viewers of what Canada’s official histories try to suppress

Illustration of four people sitting in a row and reading books. The three white readers stare into their books. The brown reader looks up away from the book. Behind them is a shelf full of other books.

Arts & Culture / July/August 2020

How Not to Write a Book about a Minority Experience

June 4, 2020August 10, 2020 - by Tajja Isen

Publishers increasingly lean on outside experts to vet books for cultural insensitivity. Is it working?

Illustration of a young brown woman in a suit, telling jokes from onstage at a comedy club. The young, diverse audience laughs. Several male comics, older and white, stand outside the spotlight looking moody and resentful.

Arts & Culture / June 2020

The Comedy Culture War

May 25, 2020June 18, 2020 - by Erika Thorkelson

A new wave of comics is rejecting stand-up’s tired tropes

Vintage and damaged photo of a girl and her father playing outdoors. The father is wearing a yellow shirt and shorts and carrying his daughter, a child with pigtails. They are standing in front of a bungalow with an open door.

Arts & Culture

Why Nostalgia Is Our New Normal

May 7, 2020December 21, 2020 - by David Berry

For hundreds of years, doctors thought nostalgia was a disease. Now, it’s a name for our modern condition

Illustration of an interconnected network of people, separated by a blazing yellow network that resembles a cable and separates the people into different boxes. The colour scheme is green, orange, and purple––a conceptual illustration of the internet network.

Technology

This Is the Internet We Were Promised

April 29, 2020May 1, 2020 - by Angela Misri

The World Wide Web hasn’t felt this supportive since it was invented. Why did it take a pandemic?

A photograph of the poet, Bronwen Wallace, in black and white. She is wearing jeans, a white shirt, and a scarf tied around her neck. Her hands are in her pockets and she is smiling at the camera.

Arts & Culture / May 2020

The Poet Whose Work Helped Set the Stage for #MeToo

April 24, 2020June 10, 2020 - by Anita Lahey

Twenty-seven years after her death, Bronwen Wallace’s feminist poetry feels newly relevant

Illustration of two hands reaching for one another across the frame and unable to touch. Behind the hands are blocks containing text that says "Quarantine: Contagious Disease" in all capital letters.

Arts & Culture

The Plague Story We’re Living Through

April 16, 2020May 1, 2020 - by Michael Lista

Romeo and Juliet reminds us that all the best human things are unhygienic—sex, kissing, a touch from the person you love

Illustration of a ghostly figure walking off a white grid and into darkness. Behind the person is a ghostly collage of all the data they've left behind––photos, passwords, location pins, emails, and text messages. The background is midnight blue.

May 2020 / Technology

The Digital Afterlife

April 8, 2020April 11, 2020 - by Brian J. Barth

The ongoing legal battle to decide who owns our data after we die

A celestial nebula composed of a latticework of green beads, with a line of yellow threaded throughout, and small circles outlined with brown and blue beads.

April 2020 / Arts & Culture

How One Artist Captures the Night Sky in Beads

April 3, 2020April 4, 2023 - by Pamela Young

The otherworldly beadwork of Margaret Nazon

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Confronting the Influence of Canada’s Colonial Monuments

How Not to Write a Book about a Minority Experience

The Comedy Culture War

Why Nostalgia Is Our New Normal

This Is the Internet We Were Promised

The Poet Whose Work Helped Set the Stage for #MeToo

The Plague Story We’re Living Through

The Digital Afterlife

How One Artist Captures the Night Sky in Beads

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