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By Whose Authority?

Times of profound revolution

Love and Lucre

Our odd, abiding affair with bookstores

Slouching toward Democracy

Where have all the wise men gone?

Noel Ransome

Noel Ransome has published arts and culture criticism with Vice and the Globe and Mail, among other periodicals.

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Noel Ransome

Good Cop, No Cop?

Sandy Hudson calls for change December 2025
Where is your imagination? This question runs throughout Sandy Hudson’s Defund: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All. The lawyer and activist is determined to challenge the uninspired thinking that prevents police reform. “It is dangerous to continue to put off the rigorous thought, debate, and hard work necessary to build the institutions of tomorrow,” she…

Transition Zone

What is next for Toronto’s Regent Park? April 2025
The Regent Park that has been a beacon for vulnerable communities is clearly endangered. You can feel and see this trend among the new towers and topography of the Toronto neighbourhood but also in the data and census numbers that signal a slow shrinking of its Black population. Just east of downtown, Regent Park was built as a sixty-nine-acre public housing project in the…