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Eccentric actor-activist Donovan King has waged a decade-long campaign against the Montreal Fringe Festival. He’s caused plenty of headaches—and divided the city’s tiny anglophone theatre scene.
“For millions of Canadians, the CBC is obscuring the fact that there is an uprising of hundreds of thousands of people in their very own country—by my most recent count, 185 demonstrations, ninety consecutive days of striking, hundreds of arrests and dozens of serious injuries at the hands of unaccountable provincial and municipal police forces.” — Why is the CBC doing such a terrible job of covering the Quebec student strike?
“Everything is contrived. I think being openly contrived is actually more honest.” — David Balzer discusses Fleetwood Mac, sublimation and his new book, Contrivances.
“I do not think poetry, or any artistic practice, has much political efficacy in the present situation.” — Poet and activist Joshua Clover on maps, protest movements and why art isn’t politically effective.
“While surfing the web in late September 2011, a Humber College student named Bryan Batty comes across footage of the New York Police Department pepper-spraying protesters at Occupy Wall Street. Batty once considered himself a social democrat, but he was caught up in a mass arrest during Toronto’s anti-G20 protests in 2010, and he now thinks of himself as an anarchist. The central tenets of Occupy Wall Street—bottom-up organizing and opposition to socio-economic inequality—resonate with him. Sitting at a rickety black table in his kitchen on Yarmouth Road, he searches the internet to see if anyone has started an Occupy Toronto website. No one has—yet.”
Image via the Globe and Mail.
“University is not a trade school. No one believes that they will get a degree in Philosophy, then get a job philosophizing. I have yet to find the English and Creative Writing factory in my neighbourhood. University education is about the power of knowledge, about expanding the breadth of the discourse by becoming informed, and by developing the skills to argue against hypocritical, spoiled journalists like Wente.”
We’re thrilled to announce that Maisonneuve received nine National Magazine Award nominations, including for the coveted Magazine of the Year prize. That also puts Maisonneuve among the top ten most-nominated magazines (tied for tenth this year with Cottage Life) for the fourth year in a row. Congratulations to all our contributors and editors, as well as to all of the worthy nominees from Canada’s many wonderful magazines! Congrats especially to the two other nominees for Magazine of the Year, Outdoor Canada and Sportsnet.
Maisy’s nominations:
Magazine of the Year
Investigative Reporting
Selena Ross
“Getting Plowed” (Issue 42—Winter 2011)
One of a Kind
Julie Salverson
“They Never Told Us These Things” (Issue 40—Summer 2011)
Personal Journalism
Kaitlin Fontana
“We Will Not Leave This Place” (Issue 42—Winter 2011)
Politics & Public Interest
Eric Andrew-Gee
“Our Tar-Sands Man in Washington” (Issue 42—Winter 2011)
Science, Technology & the Environment
Ira Basen
“Age of the Algorithm”(Issue 39—Spring 2011)
Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article
Anna Minzhulina
“Monuments: The City in Three Parts” (Issue 39—Spring 2011)
Creative Photography
Andreas Rutkauskas
“Virtually There” (Issue 40—Summer 2011)
Illustration
Gérard Dubois
“After Jack” (Issue 42—Winter 2011)
Winners are announced in Toronto on June 7.