Was sending Fat Albert to jail ever in the cards?Celebrity figured large in Bill Cosby’s trial. Did it factor into the verdict, too?
Hockey is Canada’s ’universal language’—a Q&A with Harnarayan Singh’It just brings us all, as a society, that much closer together’
Why the salaries of staffers in the Prime Minister’s Office matterPMO staffer salaries always come down to politics. But the talk around Trudeau’s staffers’ pay has the potential to cause a problem.
Neal Stephenson on magic, technology, and the lure of long booksOne of Justin Trudeau’s and Barack Obama’s favourite writers teams up with Nicole Galland for ’The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.’
Why everyone feels like they’re in the middle classWhat’s middle class? It’s as much to do with values as with income
No more monkeys driving around Toronto?A bill before Toronto city council would ban exotic animals in mobile zoos, raising questions about animals in the urban jungle
’Rough Night’ reveals that it’s still rough for Hollywood’s female directors’Rough Night’ is part of a wave of films from female directors changing up the summer movie season. But why do they mostly cede to Hollywood formula?
Praying for a real estate crashThe have-nots of housing are watching, mad as hell, as homeowners glory in their paper fortunes. And they’re starting to lash out.
Fear and loathing at Cosby trial gets worse by the hourBill Cosby’s deadlocked jurors are surely getting on each others’ nerves. But the tension outside the jury room might just be worse.
After the Grenfell inferno, a whole new terrorTormented survivors wait for news of friends and family : ’I can still hear the screaming in my head two days later,’ says one.