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Journal of a Travelling Girl

By Nadine Neema and Archie Beaverho (ill.)

On August 4, 2005, the Tłįchǫ Agreement came into effect. As a result of this accord, Canada ceded rights relating to land and resources back to the Tłįchǫ government and promised that henceforth Canada would ... Read More »

October 15, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto’s Queer Community

By Justin Ling

Toronto’s Bruce McArthur was a regular feature in the city’s gay village. He regularly met other local men for purposes of intimacy. When circumstances permitted, he also strangled them to death. The circuitous manhunt that ... Read More »

October 8, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Arlo & Pips: King of the Birds

By Elise Gravel

The key to successful comedy is knowing when to land the joke. With her three new kids’ titles, Montreal author Elise Gravel demonstrates a talent for comedic timing, firmly establishing her status as one of ... Read More »

October 8, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Not Me

By Elise Gravel

October 8, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Wrench

By Elise Gravel

October 8, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Talking to a Portrait: Tales of an Art Curator

By Rosalind M. Pepall

When Rosalind M. Pepall began her career as a curator more than 30 years ago, her job title had a very specific institutional meaning. Curating was a specialized profession requiring a graduate degree and was ... Read More »

October 5, 2020 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Reviews

Cam & Beau

By Maria Cichosz

Maria Cichosz’s debut novel – the first in a projected series – brims with theory and tension. Cam and Beau are long-time best friends and roommates living in Toronto at the beginning of the 21st ... Read More »

October 5, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society

By Ronald J. Deibert

Trying to determine a through line of broad historical periods is at best a fraught endeavour. But if there is a single driving idea of the 20th and 21st centuries, it might well be simply ... Read More »

October 5, 2020 | Filed under: Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

★ Daniil and Vanya

By Marie-Hélène Larochelle; Michelle Winters (trans.)

Reading Marie-Hélène Larochelle’s debut novel is like watching a terrifying play. The sense of dread and horror is physically palpable, and the careful stagecraft of the writing – in Michelle Winters’s capable English translation – ... Read More »

October 1, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Virtues of Disillusionment

By Steven Heighton

The word “disillusion,” Steven Heighton posits, is something of an anomaly in the English language: a double-negative construction that yields not a positive synthesis but a negative. It’s a “paradox,” Heighton explains, using mathematical principles ... Read More »

October 1, 2020 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

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Journal of a Travelling Girl

★ Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto’s Queer Community

Arlo & Pips: King of the Birds

Not Me

The Wrench

Talking to a Portrait: Tales of an Art Curator

Cam & Beau

Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society

★ Daniil and Vanya

The Virtues of Disillusionment

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