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In the downtown Toronto riding of Trinity-Spadina, where many of the city's theatres are located, elections are underway at all three levels of government....

huff shines light on all manner of suffering and gives me the opportunity to reflect on how I can change what I do and how I think. I can make a new story or I can acknowledge that that there exists, already, a rich and difficult tale that needs to be known. It is called OurStory: A story of Canada.

My priorities as a citizen in a society far outweigh my priorities as a cultural worker. I cannot simply support a government for maintaining funding to programs I might access, while that government simultaneously dismantles major institutions, policies and programs that are vital to this country’s democratic, financial, environmental and cultural well-being.

In the 2002-2003 Toronto Season I was a Dora juror for the General Division and as such I took it upon myself to keep race stats on the 80 odd shows that I saw. Non-white performers came in at the 12-13% range. I suspect that if you did the same study today you would find just about the same percentage and only that high because of the culturally diverse theatres that sprang up and are still producing.

Welcome to an Edition of #CdnCult Times dedicated to changes required to move Canadian Theatre forwards. For all of the accomplishments we celebrate, there...

Like in the performing arts industry, there is a hierarchal structure in theatre criticism. But there’s a twist: only a handful of full-time, “legitimate” jobs exist across the country, and with journalism in the state it’s in, it’s unclear whether those positions will exist when their current fillers depart.

The way we experience art is shaped by what we are taught in our childhoods, in our communities of origin, and through our embodied experiences.

When we started the Praxis blog in 2006 it had one golden rule: No reviews. We felt as artists we wanted to communicate with and about other artists. If the site passed judgment on artistic merit of our colleagues' work, we would always be outsiders. This seemed antithetical to our aims.

Welcome back for our 3rd Volume of #CdnCult Times, which will feature a new edition every second Tuesday from now until the end of the...

Am I dreaming as I write this? It contradicts everything I understand about this era.