Tanya Talaga and André Alexis among longlisted authors for 2025 Toronto Book Award
July 9, 2025
The $20K prize is awarded annually to a book that tells the stories of Toronto.
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T here is no better place to online-stalk someone than Spotify. Forget scouring their Instagram followers or tracking down their high school volunteer experiences on LinkedIn. Don’t waste time perusing photos their mom posted on Facebook nine years ago. If you want to get to know someone—and I mean really know them—there is no profile more intimate than one created on the music-streaming platform.
Spotify doesn’t function as a true social media app. You can’t share standalone pictures or posts, and you can’t message other users. But you can view other users’ public playlists...
July 25, 2025 - 06:30 | Dhriti Gupta | Walrus
On Thursday at X o’clock, the nice doctor
will give her the shot and she’ll go. I plan to be
there with her children, the new elders.
All day I walk around in thirty-degree heat, my toe rubbing the inside
of my leather shoe, reddening. Soon it will bleed.
If I were dying Thursday, this might be
the last smoke bush I see. Its red hair on fire.
And buying ginger ale at the corner store, I stare
at the purple $10 bill a long time, Viola Desmond’s face.
Maybe the last purple $10 bill. My last
tea at Annapurna. I don’t tell the friendly server
I won’t be back.
Somewhere, the waves of the sea...
July 25, 2025 - 06:29 | Ronna Bloom | Walrus
The acquittal of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team who were accused of sexual assault continues to reverberate in the city where their trial played out.
July 25, 2025 - 06:17 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
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