Probes

Monday Monday: Keeping Up with the Trumps

By Stan Persky | August 5, 2017

It’s a brand new week. What’s the tweeter-in-chief gonna do today? Keeping up with the Trumps is exhausting.

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Cultural Appropriation, Misappropriation and Cultural Exchange: A primer

By Brian Fawcett | June 29, 2017

Brian Fawcett takes on the current hot-button issue of Cultural Appropriation and what it means to Canada, its artistic community, and to the future of democracy.

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Apocalypses Now

By Michael Boughn | May 5, 2017

Is it the End of the World as we know it? And, if so, Michael Boughn asks, what will it look like? Zombies, Aliens, AI? Updating the Apocalypse.

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Narrating Galloway

By Stan Persky | January 24, 2017

Novelist Steven Galloway got fired from his job as Creative Writing Dept. chair at UBC. What happened? It depends on the story you tell.

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John Berger, 1926-2017

By Stan Persky | January 3, 2017

The death of a storyteller.

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Letter from Berlin: Read the News Today, Oh Boy

By Stan Persky | December 28, 2016

Berlin terrorist attack. The here and there of it.

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Numbers and Narratives: Notes on the Trumpiad

By Stan Persky | November 25, 2016

If one picture is worth a thousand words, is one narrative worth a thousand numbers? The 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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Toronto Pride Meets Black Lives Matter

By Stan Persky | July 12, 2016

We Canadians can probably live with it. But, can Facebook users?

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Orlando: Notes on a Massacre

By Stan Persky | July 6, 2016

Reading Orlando. Grieving Orlando.

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Mein Trumpf, Brexit, and Europe’s Rising Right: Letter from Berlin

By Stan Persky | June 28, 2016

Austrian elections, British referenda, and The Donald — we’re contemplating almost everything.

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