2024年4月1日 · 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award is now open for submissions Established in 1976, the First Novel Award program has launched the careers of some of Canada’s most beloved novelists. Previous winners include Michael Ondaatje, Joan Barfoot, Joy Kogawa, W. P. Kinsella, Nino Ricci, Rohinton Mistry, Michael Redhill, Mona Awad, Katherena …

2024年12月25日 · 1. Venue-hopping in New York City during Winter Jazzfest, and seeing Shabaka Hutchings and Carlos Niño play together live. I was standing beside Kieran Hebden in the crowd—and internally fangirling.2. Last year, I travelled to Los Angeles to see Floating Points play the entirety of his Promises album as a tribute to Pharaoh Sanders. This year, I was able …

2019年8月6日 · Stopping at the downtown Toronto office to pick up some things on my way home, I did what later felt like the first dumb thing. An acquaintance—someone I’d met once who had subsequently added me on Facebook and with whom I’d exchanged muted messages during periods of mutual insomnia—struck up the most casual of “how you doing” online conversations.

2024年12月2日 · I n the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the November 5 vote, many Canadians are unsettled and uncertain about what the future holds, judging from my social media feeds. Trump’s previous tenure, after all, prompted both a full-on national effort to buttress free trade in North America and a trade war in steel and aluminum, later resolved.

2024年12月24日 · But getting facts should be a universal right, and The Walrus needs your help now more than ever to make that possible. At The Walrus, we check every single fact in our stories so that you can have paywall-free access to the most trustworthy, accurate reporting on our site, every single day.

2021年6月22日 · I t took over three centuries and a Canadian to make it happen, but when Mark Carney was hired as governor of the Bank of England, in 2013, he became the first foreigner to run the institution since it was founded, in 1694. The response to his appointment was rapturous, bordering on parody. The British press alternately called him a banker from “central casting” …

2024年11月12日 · Whether the Galicia Division participated in war crimes is a matter of considerable debate. The published, and public, first part of the Deschênes Commission’s final report concluded that charges against the unit had never been substantiated and that members had already been screened by Allied officials before their admission to Canada.

2024年12月18日 · W hen the proto-feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft decided to marry the philosopher William Godwin, in 1797, she was thirty-eight, pregnant with their first child together, and had had a daughter out of wedlock with another man. Only five years earlier, she’d published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a historic manifesto that one might expect to have …

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