Arts & Culture

November 2019 / Sports

Raptors, Race, and Belonging

October 22, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Troy Sebastian / Nupqu ʔa·kǂ am̓

How the 2019 NBA championship helped create a vision for a new nation

A comic book panel depicting a conversation between the prime minister and a superhero, in a room full of technological equipment

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The Secret Lives of Canadian Superheroes

October 11, 2019October 15, 2019 - by Corey Mintz

Marvel’s Alpha Flight made Canada cool in the 1980s. Following the Raptors’ championship win, the comic is back

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The Return of Political Fiction

October 4, 2019February 23, 2022 - by André Forget

How a new generation of Canadian writers is turning politics into art

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Are Prose Poets Trolling Us?

September 17, 2019July 27, 2020 - by Jason Guriel

In a new anthology, everything is a poem. And nothing is

Two mouths talking at each other with speech bubbles

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Don’t Blame the Internet for New Slang

September 10, 2019March 14, 2024 - by Gretchen McCulloch

Language is always changing. How has technology forced it to evolve?

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Trans Writers Have More Than One Story to Tell

September 3, 2019December 7, 2019 - by Gwen Benaway

Too often, trans novels are written for cisgender audiences. Casey Plett’s Little Fish proves it’s time to start telling the stories that matter to us

A wax figure replica of Céline Dion at Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas

Arts & Culture / September 2019

Céline Dion Is Everywhere

August 28, 2019January 13, 2023 - by Suzannah Showler

At fifty-one, Dion is wrapping up her Vegas residency with a world tour, an album, and two movies in the works. Why has it taken forty years for the world’s most talented singer to finally become cool?