Don’t give up on downtown
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Don’t give up on downtown

For more than a decade, Lynnette Postuma walked past a massive cinder block wall on her way to work in downtown Toronto. Expansive grey walls are a staple in urban transportation corridors, but Postuma began to dream of new possibilities. In 2017, she entered a competition to paint the 12,000 square foot space. “The problem…

Serendipity at ‘A Creature Chronicle’
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Serendipity at ‘A Creature Chronicle’

“I’ll be sharing my video story at an event in Langley,” Amy Dyck told us at the end of our March local arts council critique session. Maybe I should go to be a familiar face in the crowd, I thought. When I studied the details of “A Creature Chronicle,” however, I realized that stumbling upon…

The politics of space
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The politics of space

Though COVID-19 dominated headlines for most of 2020, prominent monuments were in the news a few times throughout the year as the statues of historical figures all over the world were vandalized. Both Christopher Columbus and Sir John A. MacDonald were beheaded, as Roland DeVries wrote about for CC in September. Perpetrators protested Columbus’ connection…

Two Montreal Statues
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Two Montreal Statues

When a bronze statue of Sir John A. MacDonald was pulled down by anti-racism protestors on August 29, it wasn’t the first time Canada’s first Prime Minister lost his head. Erected in downtown Montreal in 1895, the statue has long been a target of vandalism. In 1992 it was decapitated on the anniversary of the hanging of Louis Riel. Since then it has been defaced with paint and graffiti many times.