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Start planning your parties and prepping your pool predictions, because awards season is nearly here — and it looks like it’s going to be stocked with big surprises and bitter disappointment. This morning, with the release of the 2019 Golden Globes nomination list, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association became the first authority to share their […]

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It’s been over three decades since The Handmaid’s Tale was published—and likely a little while since you read the CanLit novel in grade 10 English class—but over the past couple of years, the dystopian world that Margaret Atwood created has come to the forefront of popular culture. Whether it’s an Emmy-winning television series, a sexy Halloween costume, […]

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I was 11 years old when I found out that I’m black. Hold on. Half black. Or “mulatto,” as they used to say before the term matured into the clinical-sounding “biracial.” But I’m getting off track. Essentially, one summer afternoon, I came to learn that I had been adopted and was instantly given a crash […]

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It’s one of those experiences I now recount self-deprecatingly over drinks. But in the moment, it felt like my inescapable demise. Last spring, while I was waiting to board a connecting flight at Santiago International Airport, the earth suddenly began rattling with the kind of ferocity you only read about in doomsday prophecies. Keep in […]

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As sophisticated as we consumers of pop culture are, sometimes the opinions and impressions we have of certain characters bleed unconsciously into our feelings toward the actors portraying them. It’s like that hazy feeling of dread you get when you put on a fragrance you last wore during a breakup: You don’t quite know why […]

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  I was recently on a train traveling home from Montreal when I got locked out of my test Google Pixelbook. I panicked. In that moment, various Handmaid’s Tale scenarios went through my head because I truly believed that Google had shut me down. My Pixelbook had been disabled and I was off the G-Train. When […]

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In what can only be described as a Canada Day miracle, the universe has merged our countries two great national treasures. In a new interview between Margret Atwood – CanLit superstar and author of The Handmaid’s Tale – and American writer Junot Díaz, she was asked what was the single most popular question posed to Canadians abroad: “So, have you met Drake?” Atwood gave […]

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