The Boring Brilliance of Hinterland Who’s Who

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November/December 2020

The Boring Brilliance of Hinterland Who’s Who

October 21, 2020April 6, 2021 - by Tom Jokinen

Fifty years later, the iconic one-minute nature docs remain the best television to ever come out of Canada

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Arts & Culture

The Racist History of the Painter’s Palette

October 20, 2020October 20, 2020 - by Sadiqa de Meijer

Terms like “flesh tone” raise the question: Who does the art world think is holding the brush?

November/December 2020 / Politics

David Frum Fights the Right

October 19, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Curtis Gillespie

The controversial conservative export on his fears for the US election and the future of the Republican Party

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Memoir / November/December 2020

Loving Sports at Any Age

October 16, 2020May 17, 2024 - by Anne O'Hagan

Even in his eighties, my father dared the rest of us to keep up

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Arts & Culture

Almost Every TV Show Gets Sexual Assault Wrong

October 15, 2020October 16, 2020 - by JP Larocque

Television has historically failed to depict the survivor experience. I May Destroy You finally does it justice

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Society

How to Live with Death

October 14, 2020September 14, 2021 - by Mark Kingwell

Even if our odds of dying at any given moment are low, we can’t escape the risks underlying our existence

The Walrus Talks

The Walrus Talks at Home: Intelligence

October 14, 2020February 4, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

Minds, machines and the complexities of information

Education / November/December 2020

Black in the Ivory Tower

October 12, 2020January 30, 2022 - by Hadiya Roderique

Why it’s so hard for academics of colour to pursue their dream projects

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Poetry

Deep Religious Faith

October 9, 2020 - by Shane Neilson

I grew in darkness / and a moral chemical let me respond to the light

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Arts & Culture

How Do You Write about Your Community’s Hard Truths?

October 8, 2020 - by Sheima Benembarek

In her new novel, Farzana Doctor defies a long-standing culture of silence around female genital cutting

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