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The Treaties

Ottawa negotiated in bad faith

Making a Scene

Experimental film is ready for its close-up

A More Sentimental Man

Michael Ondaatje’s late style

Royson James

Royson James is the municipal affairs columnist for The Toronto Star. He writes three times a week on urban issues ranging from crime to clean streets and city finances.

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“So Deep, So Vicious, So Brutal”

The scourge of Canadian racial profiling is documented in a new book July–August 2006
There was a time, two decades gone, when I had to muster every ounce of optimism about job prospects for blacks in the media. During career days and black history month celebrations, I would tell black students that it was okay to pursue a career in journalism—despite the all-white cast that delivered the evening news on television and the morning news in the…