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Someone I’ve been thinking about a lot these past few days is my grandmother. Not because we were particularly close — in fact, I barely knew her, growing up in another province — but because in moments like this, it feels natural to reach back. To draw a line between ourselves and the generations …
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By Anne Brodie Misericordia (“compassion or empathy”) is an unsettling, unobvious thriller, a quiet but gale force knockout that may leave viewers gasping. Alain Guiraudie’s adaptation of the novel Stranger By The Lake, the French, Spanish and Portuguese co-pro is extraordinary – clever, sneaky …
More than anything, I just want politics to be boring again. I long for headlines so dull they barely register. “Minister Attends Meeting, Leaves On Time” is the dream. I want a government so functionally beige that I forget who's in charge, because everything is just...working. No daily drama. …
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I’ve long felt that Parks Canada matter, but this morning I read an article in the National Observer that Parks Canada is facing a massive $450 million in cuts and lapsed funding over the next two years. It made my stomach drop. I may be especially sensitive about this subject right now because I’ve …
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Is Danielle Smith a traitor? That question exploded across social media after her recent interview with Breitbart — yes, that Breitbart, part of Steve Bannon’s cartoonishly villainous empire. And with it came the T-word: treason. Treason feels like such an “old-timey” word though, doesn’t …
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