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As the former UBC professor exacts apologies and legal settlements from his accusers, Brad Cran offers a personal account of the collateral damage that the decade-long saga inflicted on the Canadian literary community.
Canada has never supported the US embargo, and the countries’ good relations are for many Canadians a symbol of our independence.
I once directed a classical musical—Anything Goes—at Canada’s Shaw Festival. But that’s the only play I’ve directed that was seen by a large audience.
How could we even conceive of something like social justice without the moral framework offered by religion?
We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics.
Rommelmann also was eager to move to a city with a vibrant national media presence.
Brian was just one of thousands of Indigenous children who were subjected to horrendous abuse at Canada’s Indian residential schools.
The school’s decision to suspend, smear and then fire Galloway on the basis of false allegations has snowballed into one of the greatest scandals in the history of Canadian education.
Quebec briefly played host this summer to a theatrical production described by one prominent artist as “reminiscent of blackface minstrel shows.”
However spurious these claims proved to be as a matter of a law, they were successful in tarring Galloway and his defenders on social media.
And yet, this being the bizarro world of 2018, Atwood’s role in Rak’s University of Alberta event wasn’t as a feminist heroine.
The effect of the #MeToo movement, especially in Canada, is creating the same subdued atmosphere among men.
Abdou responded to the advice she got by writing a different kind of book altogether. “These were big edits,” she says. “I now had a ghost story without a ghost.”
Quebec is very much part of that great cultural mash-up we call Western culture.