Alberta Racist Woman

What That Viral Racist Denny’s Video, And Our Reaction, Says About Canada For Better And Worse

Many of us want to believe that we live in a “Meanwhile in Canada” meme, a multicultural mosaic that keeps the racism of our southern neighbours over on their side of the border. Not all of us get a choice, unfortunately, and this week’s viral video of a racist woman … Read More

If art can’t be offensive, can you really have art?

Art has long been a means for artists to express ideas, often offensive ones. Great art demands attention and is best when it is controversial,  examples of which there is no shortage of. Yet in Toronto’s chi-chi Leslieville neighbourhood, a recently planned art exhibit and its cancellation is a case study … Read More

Too many white kids are going to arts-focused schools … Really?

There are too many white kids going to Toronto’s publicly funded arts schools. That is the preliminary angle the Toronto Star ran with when it published this story on April 24, after receiving a copy of a soon to be published academic article produced by an associate professor at the … Read More

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