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'In Your Face' uncovers hypocrisy surrounding the niqab
Monia Mazigh | In her book, Natasha Bakht delves into the lived experiences of Muslim women who wear the niqab and documents the discrimination they face in Canada's legal and political systems.
Book Review
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'Reclaiming Hamilton': Civic engagement and local activism in Steeltown
Karen Burson | Paul Weinberg's collection of essays features writing by some of Hamilton's most engaged, passionate, and articulate citizens.
News
Commonwealth heads of government lunch with Queen Elizabeth II, Jun 6, 2012. Image: Adam Gasson/Commonwealth Secretariat/Flickr
'The Crown' ignores Canadian role in fight against apartheid
Karl Nerenberg | "The Crown" never mentions Canada, but in real life, Canada and its prime minister played a crucial role at the 1985 Commonwealth meeting dramatized in an episode.
Podcast
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Media artists are needed more than ever during COVID
Victoria Fenner | Making video games and other forms of online entertainment are keeping media artists busy during this time. Two video game designers and a D.O.P. for film tell us how COVID is affecting them.
Podcast
Artwork: Tricia Robinson. Used with permission.
Connecting through art during the time of COVID-19
Victoria Fenner | Tricia Robinson is an illustrator, labour organizer and activist from Montreal who has found some new depths to her work and her life during COVID-19.
Podcast
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A radical design collective in Winnipeg
Scott Neigh | Terry McDowell talks about the work of Strike Poster, a collective of radical artists and graphic designers in Winnipeg.
Podcast
Portraits of Maxime and Yanet side-by-side. Used with permission
Live streaming is no substitute for live music: two conversations with classical musicians
Victoria Fenner | Classical musicians Maxime Despax and Yanet Campbell talk about performances, livestreams and ways of adapting during the pandemic. Also -- we hear some of their music.
Podcast
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'Fireball' film by Werner Herzog explores culture, science and the politics of meteors
David Peck | Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer talk about their new film "Fireball," curiosity, mystery, micro meteorites and the oldest thing in the universe.
Podcast
Image: "Feel Deeply." Copyright Kimberly Edgar. Used with permission.
Art in the isolation of Canada's north
Victoria Fenner | Kimberly Edgar talks about the isolation of Dawson City, Yukon, and how being up north in a small community has helped their art to flourish during COVID-19, in Episode 2 of "My Art Wears a Mask."
Columnists
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'The Donut King' is a sweet story with surprising fillings
June Chua | "The Donut King" tells the rags-to-riches-to-rags story of Ted Ngoy, blended with the tragedy of the Cambodian civil war, and glazed by the fascinating rise of doughnut shops in America.
Book Review
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Concrete is everywhere. It's also terrible for the planet
Daniel Aureliano Newman | A new book captures the wonders of concrete but equivocates on the damage it does to the environment.
Blog
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'The Witches' insults people with visible disabilities
Krystalline Kraus | "The Witches" is a fantasy, but the potential for Anne Hathaway's portrayal of the Grand High Witch to cause real-life pain for people with disabilities is still there.
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