For many of us, confirmation of Migos rapper Takeoff’s death came via a TMZ post that included photos of his body—and this is not the first time the site has turned Black people's trauma into entertainment.
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The former CP24 weather specialist and on-air personality says she was exploited and discriminated against at work.
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True crime was already popular when “Serial” premiered in 2014, but the podcast definitely helped the genre go mainstream. Unfortunately, some of the most notable post-Serial shows and podcasts have many of the same problems as their inspiration.
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Regular people, governments and (most troubling to me) journalists are telling a story about Queen Elizabeth and the monarchy that just isn't true.
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It tells female journalists we’re all going to age out of this business, journalists with more privilege not to stand up for their peers with less, and all of us that the bottom line matters more than the work we do.
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As it turns out, no amount of social niceties will change the fact that in almost 100 years, the magazine has published only four book reviews by Black women.
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Graham is suing Bell Media for gender discrimination in part because a Black man was promoted to a role she thought was hers.
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There's no simple, tidy narrative here—but that's not stopping the internet from trying to create one.
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Five years after Pepsi’s infamous Live for Now ad, companies have learned to be much savvier when incorporating social movements in their marketing strategies. But how much has really changed?
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In the past several weeks, there have been two articles published in huge outlets decrying the next stage of cancel culture: self-censorship. Too bad they’re B.S.
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According to a recent review by CinemaBlend’s Sean O’Connell, "Turning Red" is limited, unrealistic and difficult to connect with. Not because of the panda thing, mind you. Because it's about a Chinese-Canadian girl.
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The conflict in Ukraine has captured everyone's attention, but too many Western audiences are treating it like a dramatic story, not real life
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This week, several reporters tweeted out stories of the trucker convoy's kindness or decency, including yes, one about Jake from Saskatoon who had seemingly been hoodwinked by the *real* villains, the organizers of the trucker convoy. Here's why that's a problem.
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Proof: Last week, Angela Liddon of Oh She Glows posted an ‘emotional’ Instagram Story about how much she loves the trucker convoy protesters.
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Sure, these podcasts are hotbeds of misogyny, racism and misinformation—but does any of that really matter? According to Spotify, nah.
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This week, former CBC journalist Tara Henley went viral for a resignation post on her new Substack that claims the broadcaster is "too woke."
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In a new 'New Yorker' profile, celebrity food writer Alison Roman proves she still doesn't understand what she did wrong last May—and she doesn't really care to
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It’s not surprising that the literary icon is amplifying TERF-adjacent opinions—or doubling down when criticized. To understand why, we just have to look at her past behaviour.
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Gabby Petito’s disappearance and murder has inspired approximately a million op-eds about “Missing White Woman Syndrome.” But is media actually ready to change?
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Aside from being factually incorrect, “Hollowed Out: A Warning About America’s Next Generation” by California high school teacher and college lecturer Jeremy S. Adams is a totally transparent attempt to push conservative values.
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