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For Sugarcane, the horror is in the telling

February 18, 2025 Anna Farrow 10

The genesis of the Oscar-nominated film Sugarcane is located in the story surrounding the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation when it announced the discovery of the remains of 215 children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential […]

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The Catholic or the Davos Man?

February 3, 2025 Anna Farrow 11

Political change is afoot in Canada. Well, maybe not political change, but change of personnel. On January 6, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, leader of the federal Liberal Party for 12 years and Prime Minister for […]

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Beauty, reality, and craft

October 6, 2023 Anna Farrow 3

With a poetry collection conceived in the mud and water of Ontario’s Credit River, Catholic artist Maya Clubine is the most recent recipient of the prestigious Vallum Chapbook Award for her work Life Cycle of a […]

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I saw a mob; it wasn’t truckers

February 3, 2022 Anna Farrow 69

A true mob is terrible to witness, much less get stuck in. Something happens when humans are pressed together in fear and anger: a feral scent is emitted, an emboldening and anxious spirit. Once unleashed, […]

Books

COVID and the Fearful State

July 29, 2021 Anna Farrow 26

Long before David Attenborough brought his soothing voice to the explication of animal behaviour for the BBC Life series, the North American television public had been introduced to the majesty and oddities of the natural world through […]