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A video installation and live DJ dance party will pay tribute to Toronto's lost queer nightlife

This Nuit Blanche, artist and scholar invites attendees into an encounter with Toronto鈥檚 vibrant, vanishing past through a multi-screen video installation and dance party commemorating the city鈥檚 once-thriving lesbian and gay nightlife scene. On Saturday, October 4, Disappearing Acts will take over all five screens in Sankofa Square at Yonge-Dundas from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., commemorating the spaces that once shaped the city鈥檚 queer history.

From iconic venues like St. Charles Tavern, Chez Moi, Boots and The Rose to lesser-known backroom bars and word-of-mouth dance floors, Disappearing Acts honours more than 100 queer spaces that helped build and sustain 2SLGBTQIA+ communities in Toronto since the 1950s. Before homosexuality was decriminalized in 1969, these establishments offered sanctuary in a society that criminalized queer existence.

鈥淐oming out in the mid-鈥�80s, I couldn't go out in public with a girlfriend and hold hands. We couldn't even do that in a restaurant. We couldn't walk down the street holding hands without being harassed. It was extremely risky and dangerous,鈥� says Jeffares-Levitt, a professor of visual art at 91亚色鈥檚 School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD). 鈥淭hese clubs were super important in helping us create community. We would meet, hang out in a public space where it was possible to have a 鈥榥ormal鈥� social life outside of  our homes.鈥�

Honouring lost spaces through sound and screen

From 7 to 11 p.m., the square will pulse with music from legendary queer DJs Denise Benson, John Caffery, Ace Dillinger and Sumation, turning the public space into a temporary dance floor. Throughout the night, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., Jeffares-Levitt鈥檚 video will play on all of Sankofa鈥檚 screens, taking viewers on a journey through animated text and archival images.

Created in collaboration with animator Jesi Jordan, video editor Alison Taylor, and graphic designer Lisa Kiss, the video cycles through venue names alphabetically, beginning with women鈥檚 bars before moving on to mixed and gay spaces. Archival photos, historical footage, and tender moments of same-sex dancing are woven together with animated dissolves.

Posters listing the club names will be wrapped around columns in Sankofa Square, anchoring the installation in physical space and inviting passersby to reflect on this lost geography of queer Toronto.

Queer Toronto, then and now

Jeffares-Levitt, a photo-based artist, brings personal history and community care to the forefront in this project. A former member of Toronto鈥檚 Gay and Lesbian Patrol, she knows firsthand the role of these spaces in protecting, affirming, and shaping queer lives.

鈥淗istorically, people would have parties in their homes. But we also wanted social, public spaces. The bars and clubs provided safe places to congregate, places to meet friends, places to cruise, places to drink, places to dance,鈥� says Jeffares-Levitt. But outside the walls of the clubs, in the streets and back alleys, members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities were facing harassment and physical attacks.

Jeffares-Levitt witnessed gay-bashing as well as homophobic crowds throwing eggs and bottles at drag queens, most infamously during St. Charles Tavern鈥檚 annual Halloween drag promenade. During that time, these spaces were more than bars and nightclubs; they were lifelines.

鈥淥nce we were behind closed doors, we felt safer. Our bars gave us a sense of resilience in the face of a society that feared and hated us,鈥� says Jeffares-Levitt. While the need for exclusively queer spaces has shifted with legal protections, the advent of social media 鈥� online safe spaces and dating apps 鈥� as well as broader acceptance, she argues that something vital has been lost. The idea for this project came from conversations where Jeffares-Levitt and friends reminisced about bygone bars and clubs. She wanted to share those memories and histories with those who may have never visited or even heard of these places.

Jeffares-Levitt will be on-site and available for interviews until midnight on Oct. 4, as well as in the days leading up to the event. Photos of the installation will become available following the intervention.聽

Disappearing Acts is an independent project of Nuit Blanche Toronto 2025 supported by The ArQuives: Canada鈥檚 LGBTQ2+ Archive, City of Toronto, Sankofa Square, Toronto Arts Council, ICON Digital Productions, 91亚色 Faculty Association, and AMPD at 91亚色.

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Andrea Carlson鈥檚 A Painting is a Coin and Tu岷 Andrew Nguy峄卬鈥檚 When Water Embraces Empty Space are on view from May 23 to Aug. 2

The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of 91亚色 is proud to present two powerful solo exhibitions by international artists: and . Both shows centre ancestral knowledge, legacy, and cultural continuity, offering politically resonant works that challenge colonial narratives.

Carlson explores land, language, and ancestral knowledge through layered paintings, drawings, prints, video and sculpture. Nguy峄卬 examines the legacy of colonial collecting through the story of a 19th-century canoe from Papua New Guinea, his work following the spiritual return of the boat to the descendants of its makers. In response to Nguy峄卬鈥檚 project, the University has also begun reassessing its collection of cultural belongings from Papua New Guinea, .

The exhibitions will share a public reception on Thursday, May 22, from 6 to 9 p.m., with both artists in attendance, along with Nguy峄卬鈥檚 collaborators from Papua New Guinea. When Water Embraces Empty Space and A Painting is a Coin will remain on display from May 23 to Aug. 2, 2025. For more information, visit .

Andrea Carlson: A Painting is a Coin

This exhibition, curated by Clara Halpern, is Andrea Carlson鈥檚 first solo exhibition in a gallery in Ontario. brings together a complex arrangement of recent works 鈥� paintings, drawings, prints, video and sculpture 鈥� exploring topics that have fueled the artist鈥檚 practice for two decades: land, language, ancestral knowledge, future visions, deep time, cinema, stories, memorials and refusals.

Known for her expansive, multi-panelled works on paper, Carlson brings a layered approach to visual storytelling. Landscape plays a central role in this exhibition, particularly in paintings that stretch across multiple sheets of thick, hand-worked watercolour paper. Rendered in gouache, watercolour, inks, and oil, these fragmented, prismatic scenes challenge the 鈥渆mpty鈥� vistas depicted in traditional landscape painting and their role in bolstering colonial justifications.

A Painting is a Coin also features a newly commissioned sculptural installation of wooden columns, continuing Carlson鈥檚 ongoing series inspired by effigy mounds 鈥� ancient Indigenous earthworks that can take the shape of lizards, turtles and cranes. Water too runs through the work and is the subject of a multi-screen video collaboration with Rozalinda Borcil膬 that explores Chicago鈥檚 wetland market and the monetization of these vital ecosystems.

Together, the art in this exhibition builds intricate matrices of meaning that are personal, politically charged and cosmologically expansive, reframing relationships and time, and highlighting traditions that have withstood colonialism.

Carlson is based in Gichi Bitobig (Grand Marais), Minnesota, and Chicago, where she is co-founder of the Center for Native Futures. Her research focuses on Indigenous Futurism(s) and the entanglement of cultural narratives and institutions. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at the MCA Chicago, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and participation in Prospect.6 New Orleans, the Front Triennial and the Toronto Biennial. Her work is in the collections of the British Museum, the Walker Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the National Gallery of Canada.

Tu岷 Andrew Nguy峄卬: When Water Embraces Empty Space

Curated by Goldfarb Gallery director Jenifer Papararo, is the first presentation of Tu岷 Andrew Nguy峄卬鈥檚 work in Canada. Known for multi-faceted video and sculptural installations that explore personal narratives of diaspora and post-colonial identity, Nguy峄卬 turns his attention to a singular, historically charged object for this exhibition: a 15-metre-long, late 19th-century canoe from the Island of Luf in Papua New Guinea.

Held in the permanent collection of Berlin鈥檚 Humboldt Forum, the canoe鈥檚 provenance became the subject of a 2021 book, The Magnificent Boat (translated into English in 2023) by journalist and historian G枚tz Aly, who questioned the legitimacy of the canoe鈥檚 acquisition by a German trader. Nguy峄卬鈥檚 work positions this contested cultural belonging both as a relic and a vessel for intergenerational memory, survival and reclamation.

At the heart of the exhibition is The Encounter, a 72-minute video capturing a powerful moment: the reunion of three descendants of one of the canoe鈥檚 makers 鈥� Stanley Inum, his son Fordy, and nephew Enoch Lun 鈥� with the boat in Berlin. The film documents their emotional first encounter with the elaborately carved canoe, including a whispered critique of how the sails were incorrectly displayed, comments that lay bare colonial misunderstandings and misrepresentations.

The exhibition includes a multi-channel video installation, photographs, and hand-carved sculptures tied to the descendants鈥� ongoing project to build a replica canoe using measurements taken during their Berlin visit. A video offers insight into this reconstruction process. In these works, When Water Embraces Empty Space moves past documentation as it re-imagines pathways of return.

Nguy峄卬 is a recipient of the Joan Mir贸 Prize (2023). He has participated in major exhibitions including the Asia Pacific Triennial, the Whitney Biennial, the Sharjah Biennial and the Berlin Biennale. Recent one-person shows include The New Museum, Fundaci贸 Joan Mir贸 and Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.

From the Visible Vault 2: Papua New Guinea cultural belongings

In parallel to Tu岷 Andrew Nguy峄卬鈥檚 exhibition, Goldfarb director Jenifer Papararo is investigating 91亚色鈥檚 own holdings from Papua New Guinea 鈥� 49 cultural objects donated in the late 1970s by architectural historian Thomas Howarth. A selection of these cultural belongings will be on view in the gallery鈥檚 as part of a broader inquiry into their provenance.

鈥淣guy峄卬鈥檚 project and research as a whole has fostered a deeper conversation about responsibilities of cultural stewardship and the role we can play in ensuring these objects came to us ethically and, if not, being a process of repatriation,鈥� says Papararo.

The objects were brought into the University鈥檚 collection as a significant gift, considered to be a valuable teaching asset with the stated intention of being displayed publicly. Since their exhibition in 1979, they have been presented only once in 2014,  until now.

The Goldfarb will host Nguy峄卬鈥檚 collaborators from Luf, Stanley and Fordy Inum, Enoch Lun, and Kireni Imwe Jean Sparks-Ngenge, for the reception of When Water Embraces Empty Space and hope to gain their knowledge of the belongings in 91亚色鈥檚 care. Creating new intersections of cultural dialogue, their visit includes studio exchanges with Indigenous artists in Toronto and Vancouver, and a meeting with curators at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. When Water Embraces Empty Space has opened a vital space for conversations around cultural stewardship, memory, and the ethics of museum collections, while centring the voices of those most directly connected to the stories these objects carry.

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Professor Emeritus Alan Young, a lawyer and legal scholar known for leading the challenge of Canada's prostitution laws before the country's top court, has died at age 69. Osgoode Dean Trevor Farrow says his death is "a profound loss" for the legal profession. Young was a central figure in a landmark Supreme Court case that struck down Canada's prostitution laws as unconstitutional in 2013 and forced the federal government to revise the legislation, reports The Canadian Press. He was also known for representing people with AIDS, cancer and multiple sclerosis who were charged for using medical marijuana, leading to federal regulations permitting its use. Young co-founded and directed 91亚色鈥檚 Innocence Project, investigating wrongful convictions and imprisonment. Canadian Lawyer magazine listed聽Young聽among the 25 most influential people in the legal profession over several years. In retirement, he became a playwright. ", Alan was a trailblazer who made huge contributions not only to Osgoode, but to the law and legal profession in Canada," says Farrow. Adam Parachin, a professor at Osgoode and one of Young's former students, says he was "blessed to have known" him. "Alan was brilliant and a 'one of a kind' character. His sharp wit made criminal law an early favourite of mine at Osgoode," Parachin says in a statement.

Professor Jennifer Mills talks about diet culture and the public discourse surrounding celebrities' bodies in light of the recent Wicked movie and press tour, and online discussions about how thin the two lead actors appear to be. Mills,聽who researches body image and eating disorders, says that diet culture today is being repackaged by narratives from the health and wellness industry as drugs that can cause weight loss are prescribed by doctors. "This may trick folks into thinking that these aren't diet culture messages or a diet culture product, but in reality, it is," says Mills to The Globe and Mail. In other words, she adds.

Professor and Dean Sarah Bay-Cheng weighs in on an apology issued by the Town of 91亚色 Historical Society after greeting cards featuring art made with AI were sold at its recent holiday market. Talking to CBC, Bay-Cheng points out there are also . "The images that are being used to train large language models as the basis of different AI have been scooping up a lot of images that have been created by individual and independent artists and posted online without attribution, without compensation," says Bay-Cheng.

Professor Yvonne Su speaks to the Los Angeles Times for a feature on Canada turning against immigrants. For the first time in a quarter-century, a majority of Canadians are saying there is too much immigration, with hate crimes on the rise along with rhetoric blaming newcomers for the country's economic problems. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government recently slashed the annual total allowed into the country. "," says Su. "Then we decided there were too many? We used them." Su has tracked a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment online, where videos of Canadians making racist statements have proliferated, as well as in the real world, where reports of hate crimes more than doubled between 2019 to 2023.

In an op-ed for The Conversation, Professor Ilan Kapoor writes about Canada's response to President Donald Trump's recent threats to impose a 25 per cent tariff on Canada and Mexico and Trump calling Trudeau "Governor" and Canada a state. "Trump's latest taunts to Trudeau, in fact, prove that in the months and years ahead," writes Kapoor and co-author in their psychoanalysis of Trump and his politics.

The Walls Have Eyes by Petra Molnar, a lawyer and anthropologist who co-runs the Refugee Law Lab at 91亚色, was selected by CBC Books for the . Based on years of researching borderlands across the world, lawyer and anthropologist Molnar examines how technology is being deployed by governments on the world's most vulnerable with little regulation.

Research by Professor Christine Till is referenced in a New 91亚色 Times' article about water fluoridation coming under scrutiny. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s skepticism about fluoride has become a focal point in the debate about whether he's suitable to run the nation's health department. In Till's highly publicized 2019 paper, researchers compared the IQ test scores of 512 young children in Canada to their mother's urinary fluoride levels during pregnancy, a proxy for fluoride intake. For every increase of one milligram per liter in urinary fluoride, they saw a 4.49 point drop in IQ in boys. The researchers found no relationship with IQ in girls. Till, along with other researchers, says there鈥檚 enough evidence at this point to suggest that .

Professor Stephanie Ben-Ishai talks to The Globe and Mail about a looming reduction in the maximum allowable annual percentage rate (APR) for loans in Canada, effective Jan. 1, that creditors can legally charge. Experts are urging Ottawa to expand the kinds of borrowing costs covered by the cap, warning the lower limit will likely spur high-cost lenders to turn to ancillary charges. There are questions about whether this is enough or the best way to regulate the high-cost credit market. Ben-Ishai says for example, could incentivize lenders to better assess the debt burden their clients are actually able to carry.

Professor Emeritus Paul Delaney talks to Toronto Star about the Geminid meteor shower which will peak Friday night and Saturday morning, bringing bright shooting star-like streaks to the sky in one of the best displays of the year. Delaney explains what a meteor shower is, how the Geminid shower differs, and .

Professor Sheetala Bhat writes about a recent violent confrontation at a Hindu temple in Brampton, Ont. between pro-Khalistan protesters and Hindu nationalists that has created further tensions between India and Canada since the slaying of a Canadian Sikh activist in British Columbia. "Several Canadian media outlets reported on the Brampton clash, but most did not highlight the role of far-right Hindu nationalists and the use of a controversial slogan chanted at the temple," writes Bhat. https://theconversation.com/how-indias-hindu-nationalist-rhetoric-played-a-role-in-the-violence-at-a-canadian-temple-243633

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Professor Yvonne Su weighs in on聽Canada launching a $250,000 global online advertising campaign to caution potential asylum-seekers about the challenges of making a refugee claim. The initiative comes as Canada grapples with a backlog of 260,000 refugee cases amid rising global displacement. Su聽expresses skepticism about the global ad campaign's effectiveness and its broader implications. "We have people coming from places like Palestine and Lebanon, fleeing violence and instability. Campaigns like this, paired with stricter policies, send a very negative message that Canada is not upholding its humanitarian responsibilities," Su tells OMNI News, adding the campaign's messaging could impact Canada's global image as a compassionate and inclusive country. ""

Professor Pina D'Agostino talks to NPR about five Canadian news outlets suing OpenAI claiming it violated copyright law by using their articles to train its large language model. "We're talking about valuable content and who has the right to access and own that content," says D'Agostino. " Why not license the content?"

Professor David J. Doorey weighs in on the countrywide strike of Canada Post workers as it enters its third week. Negotiations for a new collective agreement were suspended last Wednesday after a government-appointed mediator said that Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) remained too far apart at the bargaining table. Doorey tells The Globe and Mail that under the Canada Labour Code, . Speaking to Benefits and Pension Monitor, Doorey raises concerns about Canada Post's decision to lay off employees amidst a labour action involving over 55,000 workers: "On its face, ."

Professor Dasantila Golemi-Kotra weighs in on data showing that more Manitobans have been vaccinated against the flu than COVID-19 this fall, even though the number of COVID infections recorded in Manitoba this season is well above the number of influenza cases. Golemi-Kotra says while Manitoba's overall vaccination rate didn't shock her, she was surprised the rate for seniors wasn't higher. "People don't see an urgency to get vaccinated [against COVID-19], because ," she tells CBC.

In an op-ed for Financial Post, Professor Fred Lazar discusses COP29, pledges for financial contributions and the need for accountability. "The recent UN climate summit, COP29, ended with rich countries promising to transfer $300 billion a year 鈥� a year! 鈥� to poor countries," writes Lazar. " None should go to national leaders or NGOs. And transfers should be conditioned on countries improving their score on TI鈥檚 corruption index, becoming 'more free,' as measured by Freedom House, and reducing their military spending."

Lazar also speaks with CBC for an article about Air Canada becoming the second major Canadian airline within the past year to from its cheapest fare offering. Other airlines already charging for carry-on luggage include Porter, Flair and Sunwing, which was bought by WestJet in 2023.

Professor Grant Packard weighs in on聽Mastermind Toys, a beloved 40-year-old retailer known for educational toys that聽filed for creditor protection a year ago citing increasing competition. The store currently has an 88-square-foot space at Union Station 鈥� a pop-up that will be gone shortly after Christmas. Mastermind is now hosting ticketed evenings marketed for date nights or gatherings among friends. Packard says these events accomplish something that should be a goal for Mastermind 鈥� .

Professor Vijay Setlur talks to The Globe and Mail about pro athletes supporting charities and causes with their time and money. "It helps build the equity in their brand, and also indirectly allows for promotion of their own initiatives," says Setlur. "It's an opportunity for them to ." Speaking to The Hockey News, Setlur also weighed in on the similarities between the new Toronto Sceptres' logo and a logo appearing on a uniform worn by Taylor Swift during her "Shake It Off" music video. Setlur believes . The reputability of the Professional Women's Hockey League as a women's sports league could dissuade Swift, says Setlur.

Professor Mary Forgarty comments on "The Culture" exhibit at the AGO. "Having a large-scale Hip Hop exhibit at the AGO for the first time like this still underscores Toronto鈥檚 role in shaping Hip Hop at a global level, and everyday Torontonians can ," Forgarty tells Now.

Graduate student Elio Iianacci interviews the actor, comedian and social media personality Pete Zias on creating Total Trash Live, his scene-stealing role in the horror movie Ganymede, and his upcoming role in the play Messy White Gays .

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Professor emeritus Glen Norcliffe, 81, won the 80 to 84 age group of the male sprint distance race at the 2024 World Triathlon Championship Finals held in Spain on Oct. 17. says Norcliffe of his win. Next year, Norcliffe has qualified for a triathlon in Australia and a duathlon.

Professor Steven Tufts talks to CBC about the Canada Post workers' strike and whether a shift in Canada Post's business model is needed. Tufts says , but there's a bigger issue: What should the business model of a company that has lost money in the last six years look like in the future? CUPW has been pushing for expanding services, such as postal banking and seniors' wellness checks, but Tufts says they have not built the large-scale public campaign needed to pressure Canada Post into changing its business model.

Artist and PhD student Shannon Garden-Smith wants us to think more about a crucial building material we are running out of: sand. Her recent artworks were created using pigmented dust from sand she collected around the city. For this year's Nuit Blanche, she created an 2,500 square-foot interactive floor installation using vibrantly dyed sand to form marbled patterns. During the all-night event, attendees were invited to walk across the 'carpet', disrupting the sand patterns and muddying colours in the process. "," she tells CBC. "Their engagement becomes visible in the living, changing work as an index of movement."

Scientists who study the characteristics of inland fresh-water systems are confronting 鈥� and rushing to address 鈥� a serious knowledge gap on the role winter ice cover plays on lake cycles and functioning. Professor Sapna Sharma comments on new research into under-ice conditions that is challenging what limnologists thought they understood about lakes鈥� winter behaviour. Speaking to Inside Climate News Sharma says there was a during the 1960s and '70s. Then the work paused before slowly beginning again about a decade ago.

At the 6th Muskoka Summit on the Environment on Oct. 4 in Bracebridge, Professor Deborah McGregor shared simple truths that have guided Indigenous stewardship for thousands of years, reports MuskokaRegion.com. "We cannot manage water; we can only learn how to live with water," says McGregor, and "Water is a relative of ours. Wise stewards treat water with humility and respect."

Wise stewards treat water with humility and respect

McGregor at the Muskoka Summit on the Environment

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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera mission blasted off on Monday, beginning a two-year voyage to a double asteroid system beyond the orbit of Mars. The mission is a follow-up to NASA's successful Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which impacted the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022. The goal of that mission was to demonstrate the ability to change the orbit of an asteroid. Both DART and Hera are part of the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA). Professor Mike Daly, a co-investigator on DART, says . "We really are the first generation that have the knowledge and the technologies that could prevent what could be a pretty disastrous outcome on Earth," Daly tells CBC.

Professor William Colgan speaks to CBC about a photography exhibition highlighting the effects of climate change in Antarctica on display at Berenson Fine Art gallery in Toronto. "We really need to reduce carbon emissions. That is the number one goal in keeping Antarctica the way it should be, which is in ," says Colgan.

Professor Claire Mallette talks to Medscape Medical News about the ramifications of Canada's nursing shortage. Nursing had more job vacancies in the first quarter of 2023 than any other occupation. The for the increase in vacancies were stress or burnout, concerns about mental health and well-being, and lack of job satisfaction.

Professor Andrea O鈥橰eilly weighs in on Canada鈥檚 fertility rate, which has reached an all-time low. 鈥淚鈥檓 only concerned that we鈥檙e not maybe having the necessary conversations about what that stat means,鈥� says O'Reilly. ",鈥� she continues, 鈥渁nd I think women are having fewer children because of the state of the world, that it is just so challenging, expensive, exhausting to raise children in a North American context.鈥� O鈥橰eilly tells NOW Toronto that a fertility rate of 1.26 is not something we need to worry about so much as it is a sign of the times. 鈥淎 hundred years ago, we had families of 14, and then families of eight, then families of four, and families of two, and then families of one or none. That is a huge cultural change, and that鈥檚 happened in less than a century,鈥� she says, adding, as with any cultural shift, we need to examine the cause.

Professor Palma Paciocco comments on the role of plea deals and how victims aren't necessarily consulted. This is in light of a case where a 13-year-old girl awoke in the middle of the night to discover her 27-year-old neighbour near her bed. "We have a very under-resourced criminal justice system relative to the number of charges that come through the door, and the reality is that . In other words, we simply cannot afford to have everybody who is charged with a crime go to trial," Paciocco tells CBC, adding that crown attorneys have "tremendous discretionary authority and power" when it comes to plea bargains.

We have a very under-resourced criminal justice system relative to the number of charges that come through the door, and the reality is that the system would collapse under its own weight if we didn't have a large percentage of criminal charges resolved by guilty plea.

Paciocco speaking to CBC

Professor Ian Stedman weighs in on British Columbia's attorney general's plan to amend provincial laws to unmask special interest groups behind anonymous lobbying campaigns. Niki Sharma hopes to introduce legislation requiring groups behind "grassroots" campaigns to declare who they are and who they are working for. Ontario and the federal government have adopted rules that require disclosure around "grassroots" campaigns, and Stedman says without unduly limiting the ability of ordinary citizens and advocacy groups to communicate concerns to government officials. "Lobbyist registration laws are not about prohibiting people from lobbying," Stedman tells CBC. "They're about making sure the lobbying that happens is publicly disclosed so members of the public and interested parties can go online and find out who is trying to influence policy and policymakers."

In an op-ed for The Conversation, Professor Thomas Klassen writes about the upcoming announcement from the federal government about its immigration plan and immigration levels for the next three years. " with immigration levels increased when the unemployment rate falls and reduced when unemployment rises. Immigration has always been thinly veiled labour market policy; that is, a way to fill jobs," writes Klassen.

Professor Sapna Sharma and postdoc researcher Joshua Culpepper write about how an increase in human activity, warming temperatures, and stormy conditions are causing more frequent blooms of potentially harmful algae in Lake Superior, the largest, coldest and arguably healthiest of the Great Lakes. "," writes Sharma and Culpepper.

The Washington Post reports on new research by Professor Sapna Sharma that suggests warming air temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns are , threatening people who rely on ice for transportation or recreation.

Professor Emeritus Nicholas C. T. Rogers discusses the origins of Halloween and how became part of the way we celebrate the holiday, in The Telegraph.

CBC Books is calling Walking & Stealing by Professor Stephen Cain one of the "." Cain is the author of six full-length collections of poetry and a dozen chapbooks. The highly anticipated Walking & Stealing is a collection of poems about baseball, Toronto and immersing oneself in deep thoughts.

To see: Artist and PhD student Shannon Garden-Smith created an interactive installation for this year鈥檚 Nuit Blanche using a solitary material: sand. The 2,500 square-foot floor installation used vibrantly dyed sand to form marbled patterns from the humble material. During the all-night event, attendees were invited to walk through her exhibit, disrupting the sand patterns and muddying colours. "Sand is so everyday; it鈥檚 kind of this thing that is super mundane in a lot of ways and so often represented as boring," Garden-Smith tells TorontoToday. "My hope for the project is that people are reacquainted with the magic of this thing that is everywhere, but also ." "Snail-work (for the lake)" is part of the festival's extended program and will remain open to the public at 125 Queens Quay E from 12 to 7 p.m. daily until Sunday, Oct. 13.

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Covid in the House of Old Presents 鈥淪tories for a Revolution鈥� by Associate Professor Megan J. Davies at 91亚色 on September 14

TORONTO, Sept. 11, 2023 鈥� Giving voice to the tales of devastating loss, tragedy, hopes and aspirations, (CIHO) by 91亚色 Professor and historian Megan Davies will exhibit at four new GTA locations this fall.

The travelling, national exhibit will start at 91亚色 on Thursday, Sept. 14 with a presentation, Stories for a Revolution, by Davies鈥� of her latest work, including two new chairs 鈥� Kayley鈥檚 Chair and the Rainbow Chair. It is a commemoration of the COVID-19 pandemic through CIHO, an exhibit about the impacts of the pandemic on Canadian residential care homes.

Kayley鈥檚 Chair tells the story of a young woman who lived in two Saskatchewan care homes as a teenager and young adult before moving to her own house in 2019, while the Rainbow Chair, created with the help of the Senior Pride Network, highlights the stories of queer elders in long-term care during the pandemic.

Davies, of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, created the exhibit with the help of families, staff, and residents and their stories are represented through the wooden storytelling chairs that sit at the heart of the exhibit. The chairs feature powerful audio stories of frustration, outrage, care, love, and grief that trace the fault lines that COVID-19 revealed in this country鈥檚 eldercare system.

As one of the first public commemorations of the pandemic, CIHO brings stories from a national humanitarian crisis to Canadians and asks them to take action. CIHO remembers the thousands of Canadian care home residents and workers who died of COVID-19 or suffered extended periods of stress and isolation. Some 7,609 seniors in Canadian care homes died of COVID in the first seven months of the pandemic. The chairs in this exhibit represent some of the stories told by their daughters, sons, grandchildren and more.

Visitors can share their own stories about COVID-19 in residential facilities and their thoughts about the future of eldercare at the exhibit鈥檚 Story Space. Story contributions will be uploaded to the and preserved in Montreal's Archives Passe-M茅moire, creating a permanent national collection of these thoughts, feelings, and memories.

91亚色 graduate and undergraduate students have been integral to creating and sustaining the exhibit and Story Space.

Davies, of 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, will present on Sept. 14, from 3 to 4 p.m., in the 7th floor lounge of the Kaneff Tower on 91亚色鈥檚 Keele Campus.

Davies, exhibit curator, will be in Toronto and available for interviews.

Additional exhibit dates for COVID in the House of Old:

• Thursday, Sept. 28 to Saturday, Sept. 30: Buddies in Bad Times Cabaret, 12 Alexander St, Toronto. Exhibit hours: Sept. 28, 2 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Sept. 29 to 30, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
• Tuesday, Oct. 3 to Tuesday, Oct. 10: Christie Gardens Apartments & Care, 600 Melita Cres, Toronto. Exhibit hours: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Story Space hours: Oct. 3 to 9, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Wednesday, Oct. 12 to Wednesday, Oct. 18: Active Adult Centre, 377 Burnhamthorpe Rd. E., Suite 116, Mississauga

• Friday, Oct. 27 to Monday, Oct. 30: Castleview Wychwood Towers, 351 Christie St., Toronto, ON

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