The past is a foreign country. Just ask Keith Richards
PAT MURPHY: The changes in attitudes over the past half-century are astounding. Today’s world is something my parents would scarcely recognize
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Tag: Culture
Irish lead the way in the push to decolonize
GERRY CHIDIAC: Language and culture played a significant role in helping the Irish survive. They also fueled the Irish cultural renaissance
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How urban design helps create a more vibrant city
URBAN LIFE: Diversity and culture help attract the creative talent that cities thrive on (FREE)
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Cynthia Ann Parker’s story didn’t end with her death
PAT MURPHY: Courage, charisma and adaptability allowed her son to mingle smoothly with the white world ($)
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Return iconic Toronto concert hall to its populist roots
MICHAEL TAUBE: Incorporate Hart Massey’s original model for Massey Hall and charge $1 for tickets to the first few concerts
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The Toronto Blue Jays truly are Canada’s team
GERRY CHIDIAC: Just like Canada, baseball has a way of bringing diverse groups together (PREMIUM)
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Trudeau trampling freedom of expression
FRANCO TERRAZZANO: So culture lobby can rake in more dough
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The legend of Davy Crockett
PAT MURPHY: Disney’s 1950s version of the life of King of the Wild Frontier was, well, mostly historically correct (BASIC/PREMIUM content/Not yet a BASIC/PREMIUM member? $19)
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Oklahoma’s reality even weirder, more traumatic than Tiger King
DR. RUSSELL COBB: Oklahoma has a long, sordid history of scoundrels who have found its red dirt fertile for all manner of dubious schemes
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A place of reconciliation and pride
MIKE ROBINSON: The process can include something as simple as discovering and using the ancient name for where you live (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
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Calling Elvis: When the King came home from the army
PAT MURPHY: Two years older, Elvis had filled out and the lean and hungry look was gone. And if rock ’n’ roll wasn’t abandoned, the changes were substantial (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
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Is happiness the point of human life?
DANA WILSON: It was 2,400 years ago that Aristotle identified happiness as the goal all people seek – the end of all “why” questions. But what is it?
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