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Deep Cut – “Live on My Mind”

On this selection from his intimate 1996 album The Charity of Night, Bruce Cockburn takes on the fleeting nature of love and experience by, in elegantly contradictory fashion, taking his time.

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The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show, Part 2. Memento.

The next installment in Sean Callaghan’s ongoing zombie flash fiction serial.

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The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show, Part I. Fly-boy.

Sean Callaghan writes the first flash zombie fiction installment in his ongoing series, “The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show.”

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After the Zombie Apocalypse, After Modernity

In which Sean Callaghan ruminates on the political unconscious of The Walking Dead, on what it means to have hope during a zombie apocalypse, and where we go after the dust has settled on all our dead undead.

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Five Songs for Summer, 2015

Music and summer form a sublime combination. Here are five selections to help you begin preparing a respectable summertime soundtrack for this year.

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Against the Structured Generation

By Mark McConaghy

For a generation defined by the structured rhythms of the school and the corporation, what possibilities exist to nurture the “gaps” in experience the lead to genuine change?

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Striking for Dignity at U of T

By Mark McConaghy

The Struggle Against Poverty At Canada’s Most Prestigious University.

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The Scene: Archive Wine Bar, 909 Dundas Street West

By Mark McConaghy

How one downtown wine bar can become a space of comfort in a world gone mad with violence and inequality.

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Ceci n’est pas le Prophète.

By Sean Callaghan.

I was listening to a segment on CBC recently about a Palestinian cartoonist who, much like the artists and editors at Charlie Hebdo, found himself persecuted for publishing cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Unlike the tragically fated workers at the French magazine

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What Was Lost: On Joseph Boyden’s The Orenda

How can Joseph Boyden’s epic novel help us imagine ethical forms of community and ecology for a post-colonial Canada?

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