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Statues of colonial leaders toppled as protests mark Canada Day Friday, 02 July 2021 4:43 AM   [ Last Update: Friday, 02 July 2021 10:42 AM ] People take part in a march after the discovery of hundreds of remains of children at former indigenous residential schools, on Canada Day in Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 1, 2021. (Photo by Reuters) A group of protesters have toppled statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II in Canada amid growing outrage over the treatment of Indigenous children in notorious reside...

, won the  Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour as well as a Canadian Jewish Literary Award. It was also a finalist for both the Governor General's Award for fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He lives in Hamilton, Ont. The Lover, the Lake is a novel by Virginia Pésémapeo Bordeleau (pictured), translated by Susan Ouriou.(Freehand Books) The Lover, the Lake was a sensation when it was originally published in French. Now available in English,  The Lover, the Lake is a celebration of Indigenous sexuality and sensuality. It is the story of a forbidden but fulfilling love affair between...

The Crash Palace is a book by Andrew Wedderburn.(Coach House Books, Malcolm Overend) The Crash Palace is about a woman named Audrey, who used to work in the oil fields and attend parties at a remote lodge in the wilderness known as the Crash Palace. Audrey has long left that life behind her, and now has a daughter. But one night, she is compelled to return to the now-abandoned Crash Palace — where she must also reckon with her past. When you can read it: Jan. 12, 2021 Andrew Wedderburn is a writer from Alberta. He is also the author of The Milk Chicken Bomb, which was a finalist for the A...

UTC Meet the U of T students who crushed it in 2020 At the end of each year, U of T News looks back on students’ achievements over the past 12 months and recalls some of the more impressive or inspiring feats. But 2020 has been a year unlike any other. The COVID-19 pandemic forced everyone at the university to rethink the way they do things, and U of T News is no exception. There was quite simply no way to boil this year’s list down to just a handful of exceptional student stories – an exercise that was next to impossible at the best of times, given the sheer number of impressive stud...

Posted: Dec 16, 2020 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 24, 2020 Peter Nygard's lawyer says the dozens of sexual assault allegations against him are false and part of a 'well-orchestrated' media campaign to bring him down.(Annie I. Bang/The Associated Press) As news of fashion mogul Peter Nygard's arrest became public earlier this week, it gave Serena Hickes the courage to come forward for the first time with her own allegations. Hickes was 21 when she worked at one of Nygard's retail outlets in Winnipeg. In 1993, she said, she thought she was going to be used as a model for Nygard's company...