#A post-pandemic Architecture Biennale – Macleans.ca

#A post-pandemic Architecture Biennale – Macleans.ca

“#A post-pandemic Architecture Biennale – Macleans.ca” Sculptures of Black African figures adorned in tribal body paint crowd the entrance of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. They confront visitors out of jagged holes in doors through which they appear to have fallen—or perhaps been pushed. One is bent backwards by the weight of a heavy platter…

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#Mary Simon, at the moment she’s needed most

#Mary Simon, at the moment she’s needed most

“#Mary Simon, at the moment she’s needed most” Image of the Week: Simon becomes the first Indigenous person to serve as Governor General, and arrives at a time of great reckoning In 2010, Mary Simon, then the president of Canada’s national Inuit organization, may have noticed her name being bandied about in the press as…

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#The brilliance that residential schools could not stamp out

#The brilliance that residential schools could not stamp out

“#The brilliance that residential schools could not stamp out” Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, academic and musician and an instructor at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning. I was nearing the end of the mandatory 14-day isolation period for non-essential workers in Yellowknife when the news first broke of the…

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#Vaccines extremely effective against COVID variants of concern: Canadian study

#Vaccines extremely effective against COVID variants of concern: Canadian study

“#Vaccines extremely effective against COVID variants of concern: Canadian study” Whether it’s Pfizer, Moderna or Astra Zeneca, the vaccines used in Canada ‘are doing exactly what they should be doing,’ including against the Delta variant Researchers around the world are sifting through data to determine how the leading COVID-19 vaccines are doing against the variants…

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#338Canada: The Conservatives keep falling behind

#338Canada: The Conservatives keep falling behind

“#338Canada: The Conservatives keep falling behind” Philippe J. Fournier: The latest round of polling suggests the Tories are getting pulled down by an unpopular leader, putting the Liberals in solid majority territory In what was probably the last round of federal polling until the summer break (and perhaps until the writ is drawn up in…

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#’Every day, we wish she were still with us’

#’Every day, we wish she were still with us’

“#’Every day, we wish she were still with us’” Patricia Treble: On what would have been Diana’s 60th birthday, Prince William and Prince Harry unveiled a new statue, keeping the focus on their mother Diana, Princess of Wales, would have been 60 today. Surely, she would have celebrated her birthday with her family, especially her…

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#The COVID outbreaks that Ontario wasn’t counting

#The COVID outbreaks that Ontario wasn’t counting

“#The COVID outbreaks that Ontario wasn’t counting” When media reported that nearly all residents at a Participation House facility in Markham, Ont., had caught COVID-19, it put congregant living facilities on the radar of Canadians for the first time in the pandemic. It was just after the April 2020 long weekend, and it was the…

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