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a hooded figure with a bitcoin logo — a b with two lines going through it vertically - against a yellow-tinted background of mysterious symbol chains

Did a Canadian developer really invent bitcoin? A new HBO show explores an intriguing theory

Jeremy Clark, Concordia University

A white woman with long, blonde hair in a sparkly bodysuit sings into a microphone to a huge crowd of people

Taylor Swift’s Eras tour: Is it Toronto’s ‘Wildest Dream’ for its economy, or too good to be true?

Kelley A. McClinchey, Wilfrid Laurier University and Frédéric Dimanche, Toronto Metropolitan University

A protester dressed in black drops to his knees

Is the U.S. election making you feel adrift and wobbly? That’s ‘zozobra’ – and Mexican philosophers have some advice

Carlos Alberto Sánchez, San José State University and Francisco Gallegos, Wake Forest University

‘A Different Man’ examines tensions between personal identity and societal expectations

Billie Anderson, Western University

Two people sitting in dialogue at a press conference.
Oasis reunion: How to stop your sibling feud from becoming a lifelong estrangement

Ramona Alaggia, University of Toronto

Two musicians on a stage, one singing, the other playing guitar.
Meet the composer who claimed her music channelled the spirits of classical music icons

James Deaville, Carleton University and Érico Bomfim, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT)

See-through, ghostly hands play a piano.
A Black man wearing a red sport jersey and baseball cap sits in the back seat of a car looking into the camera.

I research rap lyrics and testified in a Toronto rapper’s murder trial

Jabari M. Evans, University of South Carolina

A woman and man in front of a shelf of vibrators.

‘Nobody Wants This’ amps laughs about intermarriage in Judaism but intended humour hurts

Celia E. Rothenberg, McMaster University

A woman seen at a spinning wheel.

‘We knew she was a fairy when we saw her:’ How Irish folklore around spinning instructed women artisans

Brandi Goddard, University of Alberta

a woman in a silver bodysuit sings into a mic

Tips for concertgoers on staying safe when attending Taylor Swift’s Eras tour

Jack L. Rozdilsky, York University, Canada

Film & TV

A child seen with a grocery cart.

Raising independent and resilient children: Lessons from TVO’s ‘Old Enough!’ and the science of love

Nikki Martyn, University of Guelph-Humber

Beyond ‘one and done’: Achieving gender equity in the film industry depends on more than entry programs

Deb Verhoeven, University of Alberta

People on a film set.
Caitlin Cronenberg’s ‘Humane’: Dystopian satire questions ecological disaster and compassion

Chris Corker, York University, Canada

A man and woman in suit jackets with a television image of a forest fire behind them.
International productions of ‘Love is Blind’ are joyfully disrupting ‘happily ever after’

Tiara Sukhan, Western University

A man sits with his arms around a woman. he holds a glass of champagne.
‘Decolonizing Lens’: Winnipeg and virtual film series reflects the beauty of Indigenous worldviews

Jocelyn Thorpe, University of Manitoba and Kaila Johnston, University of Manitoba

Girls standing on a porch surveying space and smiling.

Language, reading & writing

‘Iyashikei’ healing manga comforts readers with attention to small joys

J. Andrew Deman, University of Waterloo

A smiling girl holding a phone and doing a selfie.
Out of the archive: A collection of stories about Mount Elgin Indian Residential School

Mary Jane Logan McCallum, University of Winnipeg

A man looking at papers, in a posed photo near a typewriter with a book and feathers.
Representing Gaza: Artists are using social media-based comics as resources and resistance

Amy Mazowita, Concordia University

A group of crescent moons against a dark night sky. Each of the moon's has the face of a murdered Palestinian, and the moons appears to be wrapped in white cloth. The ruins of Gaza are spread on the ground below.
Looting of African heritage: a powerful new book explores the damage done by colonial theft

Françoise Vergès, UCL

Wooden doors covered in relief carvings

Fashion & style

Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London celebrates the optimism, hedonism and style of the new romantics

Naomi Braithwaite, Nottingham Trent University

Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London celebrates the optimism, hedonism and style of the new romantics
West Africa’s fashion designers are world leaders when it comes to producing sustainable clothes

Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

A young woman stands at a waterfront pool with an arm on her hip, posing in an outfit of shiny green with pink African fabric contrasting it on the collar and skirt.
10 years after the Rana Plaza collapse, fashion has yet to slow down

Verena Gruber, EM Lyon Business School and Marie-Agnes Parmentier, HEC Montréal

10 years after the Rana Plaza collapse, fashion has yet to slow down
How sportswear fashion is indebted to Indigenous and African American cultures

Henry Navarro Delgado, Toronto Metropolitan University

How sportswear fashion is indebted to Indigenous and African American cultures

Music

When a child prodigy composer matured into a noblewoman, her legacy got complicated

Amanda Lalonde, University of Saskatchewan

Lithograph of a young girl in profile.
The Oasis brothers: Father’s abuse explains feud, resilience could end it

Ramona Alaggia, University of Toronto

The Oasis brothers: Father’s abuse explains feud, resilience could end it
Prodigy’s personal mythology: Remembering the ‘fallen angel’ of Mobb Deep

Marcus Evans, McMaster University

Two Black men pose for a photo on a sidewalk.
The triumph of vinyl: Vintage is back as LP sales continue to skyrocket

Josh Greenberg, Carleton University

A hand seen flipping through records and the word 'midnights' is seen on one album.

Exhibits & visual culture

Medieval Women: In Their Own Words at the British Library is unmissable

Diane Watt, University of Surrey

Medieval drawing of group of nuns
Photographer Louis Carlos Bernal memorialized the barrios at the US-Mexican border

Rebecca Senf, University of Arizona

Sepia portrait of middle aged man standing in front of a desk with his hands on his hips and a camera hanging from his neck.
Artists bring human richness at times of strife — and need to be allowed to speak about the Israel-Hamas war

Lowell Gasoi, Carleton University

A person with umbrella seen in front of a building with wide steps and many glass panes that says Art Gallery of Ontario.
Seeing histories of forced First Nations labour: the ‘Nii Ndahlohke / I Work’ art exhibition

Mary Jane Logan McCallum, University of Winnipeg and Julie Rae Tucker

A scultpture installation seen on a gallery wall showing various objects in the shape of a cross with objects related to manual labour alongside the horizontal axis, such as a saw, pitchfork, washing board and scissors.